EgyptAir passenger plane crash over Mediterranean: no theory should be ruled out at the moment as the investigation is ongoing

EgyptAir airplane
(Image: The Telegraph)

Ahram-Online materials - CAIRO: An EgyptAir flight vanished early this morning en route from Paris to Cairo. Radar signals from flight MS804 were lost at 2:30am Cairo time, EgyptAir have said, around the time the flight entered Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean.

The commercial flight left Paris at 11:09pm GMT and was due to land at Cairo airport at 03:15am local time.

Sources told Al-Ahram Arabic website that air traffic controllers in Athens had failed to establish communication with the pilot after the plane went off the radar.

Egypt: EgyptAir passenger airplane hijacking in Cyprus is over, the hijacker arrested

Hijacked EgyptAir plane in Larnaca, Cyprus
(Image: Daily Mail)

EgyptAir passenger airplane Airbus 320, flight 181, was hijacked on Tuesday, 29 March, and changed its route to the city of Larnaca, Cyprus. The airplane took off in Borg El-Arab airport in Alexandria and was en route to Cairo early in the morning, as suddenly a man wearing a suicide belt took the control of the airplane and demanded the course to be changed to Cyprus.

The hijacker reportedly demanded first to head to Turkey, but the fuel was not enough, so the airplane had to land in Cyprus, according to the reports of some local media.