| • | Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi says the possibility of a terror attack as the cause of flight MS804's demise is "stronger" than technical failure. French President Francois Hollande said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash. |
| • | Greek officials say the plane apparently made two sharp turns then suddenly lost altitude before vanishing from radar. |
| • | EgyptAir says the Airbus A320 commercial jet lost radar contact at 2:45 a.m. local time at 37,000 feet. The aircraft normally travels the 1,993-mile distance from Paris to Cairo in 4 hours and 20 minutes. |
| • | Egyptian and Greek authorities say the plane likely went down near the Greek island of Crete. |
| • | Greek TV reports two floating orange objects that could be airplane debris were spotted in the ocean 50 miles southeast of the area where the plane disappeared. |
| • | Relatives of passengers aboard the missing flight are arriving at Cairo airport and at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where crisis centers were set up. |
| • | No Americans were reported to be on the flight. EgyptAir listed the nationalities of the passengers as: 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis and one each from Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria, Canada, Great Britain, Belgium, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. One child and two infants were among those aboard. |
| • | Egypt's state news agency quoted Prime Minister Sherif Ismail as saying there was no "distress call" issued from the plane before it went down. |
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