The EgyptAir flight with more than 66 people aboard
crashed during a flight from Paris to Cairo leaving the victim's
families and friends mourning after the news broke.
The plane was flying at 37,000 feet when
it lost contact overnight above the Mediterranean Sea, the airline
tweeted. French President Francois Hollande said he was told the flight
crashed, but Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sharif Fathi said he preferred to classify the flight as missing, CNN reports.
"We
do not deny there is a possibility of terrorism or deny the possibility
of technical fault," Fathi said at a Cairo news conference. "I will
continue to use the term missing plane until we find any debris."
Later at the same news conference, he
indicated that while there were "no known security issues" with
passengers aboard the plane, the probability of terrorism downing it is
higher than the likelihood of a mechanical cause.
"I
don't want to go to speculation. I don't want to go to assumptions like
others. But if you analyze this situation properly, the possibility of
having a different action aboard, of having a terror attack, is higher
than having a technical problem," Fathi said.
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