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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
RANSMIT we will contrait on the disappearance of Egypt flight MS804. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
We don't know what caused it to crash. One thing we know, is that it | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
didn't reach its destination. The flight was just 20 minutes from | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
landing here at Cairo International Airport when according to the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
authorities it simply van Northern Irished. Without any warning or | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
distress call. There has been a major sea and air | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
search all day as Egyptian officials consider the likelihood of terrorist | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
involvement. Families in both Cairo and Paris | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
have had difficult days, waiting for news about relatives | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
on board. So many of you have questions about | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
this story, many of them can't be answered at the moment. If you use | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
the hashtag BBCOS we will pass any information on. | :01:08. | :01:23. | |
We are in a situation where we have two directly contradictory reports | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Three hours ago, EgyptAir released this statement. | :01:28. | :01:39. | |
Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation had just received an official letter | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that confirms | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
the finding of wreckage of the missing aircraft No. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
But now this breaking: Senior Greek air safety official says debris | :01:47. | :01:59. | |
found so far in Mediterranean does not belong to an aircraft. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
It's impossible for us to tell you which one of these | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Answered at the moment. If you use the hashtag BBCOS we will pass any | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
information on. It is agrees that the Egyptian and | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
French Governments that the plane has come down, another significant | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
element, here is our transport correspondentonline, telling us the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Greek Defence Minister has talked of the plane swerving and dropping | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
height quickly. Other reports say the plane made a 90 degree turn left | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
and a 360 degree turn before it disappeared. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Let's look at what we can be sure of. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Flight MS804 left Paris at 11pm local time. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
At 2.27 a signal was picked up by Greek air traffic control. | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
Three minutes later, Egyptian air traffic control lost | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
It was due to arrive in Cairo at 03.15. | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
The search is focusing on the area south of the Greek Island Karpathos. | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
This is the flight path the plane took before it went missing. | :03:14. | :03:27. | |
Disappears over the Mediterranean, immediately it was known it | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
disappeared different scenarios started to be considered. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
This image is from a Nasa satellite over the area at the time - | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
That suggests weather is unlikely to be a factor. | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
It's worth noting that the plane visited Tunisia | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
and Eritrea on Wednesday - though we have no idea if that's | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
There is no suggestion that that visit is relevant to the reason that | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
it came down. I want to show you this. This is a video from a website | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
called Marine Traffic the place is marked where the plane disappeared. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
If I play it on you can see the blue rectangles coming in. Each of them | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
represents a boat. As you see this animation continue, you get and idea | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
of all the boats coming from Crete and the Egyptian coast, to the | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
search area to help look for the plane. | :04:33. | :04:46. | |
Tell us what is happening now, James. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
People are checking in, for flights, almost as knowledgele. If you | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
ignored the journalists here you would think nothing has happened in | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
the last 24 hours at all. Operations are continuing, and people are going | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
about their business, but nevertheless, the French state and | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
French investigators want to get to the bottom of why a plane which left | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
this airport, never made it to its destination. To that end we | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
understand tonight, that France is sending three experts from its | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
bureau of investigation and analysis to Egypt. It hopes that those three | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
experts will be able to advice, perhaps take part in the underwater | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
search for the flight recorders, because it is simple. If you find | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
the recorders you will probably find why the plane crashed. We wait the | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
see when those investigators get to Egypt, whether they will be taken | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
onboard the Egyptian team, whether they will be adviser, we know one | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
other French expert is going as well. A technical adviser from | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Airbus itself. I am interested because of the Paris and Brussels | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
attacks has the level of security at the airport you are at at the moment | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
changed in recent months? It has, and you notice it if you are coming | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
in from other European country, I came in from Italy which is part of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
the Schengen single border area, but our passports were checked and one | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
person in the line said this is Schengen, they said no, this is a | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
passport check and that is a new security measure that Paris had to | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
put in place following the attack last year. I was interested to see | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
reports that the Egyptians are saying they will lead this | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
investigation, is that something the French are comfortable with? We will | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
have to see. What is interesting is this, on a first day, there are a | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
lot of pledge, there are pledges to lead investigation, there are | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
pledges for people to take part, to advice, to join up. The harder | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
questions may come in the next few days, when, if everybody is in the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
same planest place, what happens if they have to reach difficult | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
conclusion, what happens if one lot of people wants to interview some | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
people and another team says no, you cannot interview those people. I | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
think the French know this. It was an Egyptian plane. It has Egyptian | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
mostly Egyptian passenger, and the debris may in the end be sent to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Egypt itself, so France will feel it can only assist the investigation, | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
but I think we might expect some complicated questions between French | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
investigators and Egyptian investigators over the next few | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
hour, days possibly weeks. It is inevitable that everyone is | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
discussing why it came down, we must not lose sight of the fact this is a | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
tragedy for France, it lost a number of its citizens. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
15 people including a family of four, we believe there were Algerian | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
French people, the father we understand was a shopkeep e he may | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
even have been a grocer, and his family, which had his wife and two | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
young children, were on a holiday. They got on that flight last night | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
and they never made it. So France has been having to deal with some of | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the human stories as well as logistical problems of why that | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
plane never made it. Thank you. That is James Reynolds live from Paris. | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
The majority of passengers were Egyptian, and on news of the plane's | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
disappearance their relatives started to gather at Cairo's | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
International Airport. The BBC's Sally Nabil | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
has been there all day. She has described how families | :08:15. | :08:25. | |
onboard felt they weren't getting information from the authorities, we | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
had stills coming in from photographers working at the | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
airport. It is hard to imagine the anguish of the people on to the | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
plane have been going through, desperate for news that try to tell | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
them that the desperate tragedy they feel has come upon them wasn't to | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
be, but most of the time they weren't getting any information at | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
all. But it wasn't that the Egyptian aviation minister hasn't been | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
talking it is just he has been limited in what he can say, you will | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
see that, in this clip of him talking to the BBC's Quentin | :08:57. | :08:57. | |
Somerville. If I could ask you, do you have any | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
security concerns is about anyone on the plane, whether they were | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
passenger, crew member, on the flight deck? Nothing has been | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
reported about that. We haven't got any kind of security concerns about | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
this specific person, but don't forget that the investigation is | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
still going on. I am pretty sure that there are some what you call | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
it, there is a profiling process for people onboard, and the security | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
departments or the concerned security divisions, will be taking | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
the necessary action in this. This is that concern it is another | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
problem for Egyptian aviation and EgyptAir? It S I have my own | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
assumption, I have my own doubts, but I would like to park them all, | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
how do you call it, somewhere, until we reach some conclusions, What is | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
your principle worry? My principle worry is that, I don't want to tell | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
you, you dragging me to something I don't want to say. No. Quentin has | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
been reporting from Cairo today. We talked earlier about how the | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
families on of those onboard are being treated. It wasn't just a | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
sense of frustration, it was a sense of, of desperation, really. And you | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
felt it not just from the families but also from EgyptAir officials, | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
they, the aviation minister spoke about the, he was wearing mask, that | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
they were, people really were putting on a brave face, hoping | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
against hope, that somehow, the plane and or perhaps survivals would | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
have been discovered. That statement came out confirming the wreckage has | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
been discovered. The plane has been lost, and likely all lives wit. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
EgyptAir expressing its deepest sorrow and there are still many | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
families here at Cairo Airport, thraeenedly backbench an enormous | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
blow. Blow. Even though they knew it was a slim hope they would see their | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
relatives again, they expected to arrive at this airport, just after | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
3am this morning to welcome back their family members, from from | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Paris and beyond, and instead they have had to spend the entire day at | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
the airport and it has been bad news after bad news and the ultimate bad | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
news they will never return. Have the officials you have been speaking | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
to been willing to discuss what may have brought the plane down? No, | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
that is to be expected because nobody likes to speculate so early | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
on when they have very little information. The aviation minister | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
did seem to indication terrorism as he put it was the likeliest outcome. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Many people have been commenting that this plane was in good shape, | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
it had been checked regularly, etc,eth, so that likelihood was, was | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
put out there very early on, but remember, this is a country which | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
relies desperately on tourism, tourism from across the globe, | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
passengers and tourists who arrive here, principally by Aero plane and | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the last six months Egypt has seen three catastrophic incidents, in | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
terms of its aviation, there was the bombing in Sinai which the Islamist | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
state took the credit for, we saw the hijacking of a plane taking to | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
Cyprus and now this not confirmed, this was a terrorist attack t | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
message we have been getting from the aviation authorities behind me | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
today, is that don't expect answers in a day or two, this will take | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
week, if not month, perhaps a year to get to the bottom to what | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
happened to this flight. Also remember, Egypt doesn't have a great | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
track record. It hasn't always co-operated with international | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
investigations in the past. It hasn't been straightforward because | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
so much of this economy's -- country's economy relies on tourism. | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
We have heard from James, from Quentin in Cairo, in a few minutes | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
we will hear from Richard Westcott and we will hear from Frank Gardner, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
the BBC security correspondent as get their analysis on the appearance | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
of this EgyptAir flight. We are live in the BBC News room and | :13:09. | :14:27. | |
our lead story is the situation with this EgyptAir flight that has | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
disappeared. There are conflicting accounts about wreckage that has | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
been found near a Greek island. Egypt said it had belonged to the | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
missing plane. Let us bring you the latest stories from BBC World | :14:43. | :14:43. | |
Service. Yesterday we were reporting | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
that one of the Chibok Today the girl in question | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
met Nigeria's President She was part of a large | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
group of over 200 girls More heavy rain in Sri Lanka - | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
and it's getting in the way of the search for victims | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
of huge mudslides. It's feared 130 missing | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
people have died. To give you an idea of the scale | :15:03. | :15:03. | |
of these floods, some houses in capital, Colombo, | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
are flooded up to the rooftops. A new report is the latest to warn | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
that antibiotic resistant bacteria could kill someone every three | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
seconds by 2050. The report calls for billions | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
of dollars of investment to prevent modern medicine being cast back | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
into the dark ages. The plane that has gone missing is | :15:23. | :15:45. | |
an Airbus A 3200. It is one of the most common passenger planes in the | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
world. We understand there are over 6700 of them, in fact it is | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
estimated that one of these will take off somewhere in the world | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
every two-and-a-half seconds, now Airbus has published a statement on | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
its Facebook page, it says: our transport correspondent Richards | :16:01. | :16:16. | |
we cot has been talking to his contacts all day. He gave me his | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
ament of what could have causes the crash. Still everyone is saying we | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
don't know what caused it and people are loathe to speculate but I think | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
it is significant that the Egyptians are suggesting it is more likely to | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
be a terrorist attack than an accident and the Russians are | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
suggesting that as well. When you talk to security experts and crash | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
experts, what they say is, it is very rare, credibly rare for an | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
ordinary aircraft cruising at normal altitude to disintegrate and to do | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
it is so quickly no-one could get a Mayday message out. None of that | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
says this is definitely a terrorist attack, it could be an accident, we | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
don't know, but it does seem that things at the moment are pointing | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
more towards something sinister, rather than an accident. We had this | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
account of it turning left by 90 degrees and turning 360 degrees. Are | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
there any examples of planes having done that before, just before | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
disappearing? What I have been told that doesn't tell us much at all. If | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
it is officially confirmed, so people have said to me, look it | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
suggesting the aircraft was out of control, perhaps it was in a couple | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
of bits and it was going one way and another, but no-one was able to | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
control it. That doesn't necessarily tell you why it happened. If it did | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
lose height quickly, if it was veering all over the place it | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
suggesting something catastrophic has the happened, perhaps the tail | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
has come off, but it doesn't tell you why that has happened. So when I | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
have talked to experienced investigators they say it could be | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
significant but it won't tell you why, it tells you what happened. We | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
have talked a number of times about planes unfortunately coming down, | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
and viewers often ask, is it now more dangerous to be on a plane, | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
than in previous eras? And you have stood here and said the facts don't | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
bear that out. It is just as safe as it has been. It feels like we are | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
having these a lot. I feel like I cover a lot of these accidents. It's | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
a global media world of and they get attention. Attention. Statistically | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
it is safer to fly and that it has been. The 1259s come out but we are | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
seeing high profile crash, and what tends to happen is sinister things | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
we seem to be seeing less of mechanical failure, a bit more pilot | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
error and sinister things like terrorist attacks and like pilots | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
who decide, who have mental health problems who decide they are going | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
to crash the aircraft on purpose, which is what happened with German | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
wing, the aircraft themselves technically are safer than they have | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
ever been T coms are brilliant at flying them, but what you can never | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
legislate for is the human element. It will never be completely safe | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
because it is easy to target an aircraft if you were determined to | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
do it. The mechanics of flying, statistically safer than you have | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
ever been. There is speculation this plane was drought down by terrorism. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
That is partly because of the Paris and the Brussels attack, carried | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
bout I the Islamist State group. It is also because in the last seven | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
months there have been two incredibly serious incidents | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
involving Egyptian aviation, one was in the Sinai peninsula, the other | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
ended up in Cyprus, let us talk about that first. Back in March, | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
involved another EgyptAir flight that was hijacked and forced to fly | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
to sigh prurks you can see it here, on the run away, after it landed. It | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
turned out the hijacker's suicide belt was fake, many questions were | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
raised about how he got onboard. You can see a picture of him with the | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
red circle round him, coming through security. People wanted to know how | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
that was possible. We get to October and that was when a Russian | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
passenger jet brougtz do 224 people died, and the Islamist State group | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
said it put a bomb onboard. So Egypt is definitely under | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
scrutiny on issues of security. So is France. This is the website the | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
French newspaper Le Figaro, in this article there are quotes from a | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
French border police source, saying the a investigators will be | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
focussing their attention on ground crew, at the airport. Now, this is | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
significant because bear in mind, in December, a security review at | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
French airports led to 70 workers having their air side security | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
clearance revoked. Dale long the BBC's Frank Gardner our security | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
correspondent has been working on this story. I want to talk to Frank | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
about the accounts of the plane behaving erratically in the moments | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
before it lost contact and what could have caused it to do that. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Really this is down to three plausible possibilities. One is | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
catastrophic mechanical failure that, the aeroplane systems failed | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
and the pilot and co-pilot were wrestling to try and bring it under | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
control, and obviously failed. If that was the case, two, that there | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
were some kind of come motion onboard, a fight, possibly somebody | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
trying to get into the cockpit, or over powered the pilot or take over | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
control of the plane. It's a possibility. I am not saying there | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
is any evidence but it is one of the possibilities being considered. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Three, a bomb, an explosion onboard of some kind. Not necessarily in the | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
cabin, could have been, who knows where, and that is something which | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
people are looking at very much. If it was an explosive device put | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
onboard, where? Where was it inserted? Was nit Paris, or was it | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
at one of the other airports that this plane visited in the previous | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
48-hours? Cairo, Tunis, Eritrea? So none of these are the fintive and | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
viewers shouldn't read too much into the fact I am security correspondent | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
and am sitting here, security or terrorism is one of the | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
possibilities. But a lot of us with your surprised how many places this | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
plane had been to in a short space of time. Time. Who would have access | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
to the plane during those visits and do the French authorities keep track | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
of those countries in advance of their plane leaving the airport. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Cleaner, flight crew and ground staff is the answer. Planes need to | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
be refuelled, cleaned, replenished with, you know, and services, has | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
the I do turn rounds, I don't know how long they are on the tarmac in | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
those place, so, some people have said, hang on, if you put a device | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
onboard a plane, surely it would have gone off before then. Not | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
necessarily, look at Lockerbie, the East Midlands Airport thing about | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
six year ago when Al-Qaeda and Yemen were able to smuggle a viable | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
defence in printer ink tone car fridges and put on a cargo plane | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
that passed through Dubai and went from Dubai to East Midlands Airport, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
where it was discovered, only after a tip-off, from intelligence | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
agencies. Now we have confirmation the | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
wreckage has been found, presumably that will accelerate the | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
investigation, it will provide invaluable information on what could | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
have brought this plane down? It will give some clues, but they are | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
not going to know definitively what happened until they recover the | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
flight roareds so the cockpit voice recorder and the other black box | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
will need to be recovered, and they could be in anything as much as two | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
mile, three kilometres of deep water, the Eastern Mediterranean is | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
surprisingly deep. It is not as deep as the Indian Ocean but it could, | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
there will be will be a bleer, a transmittinger beacon that will | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
bleep for about a month, so they have got a month to find it. I hope | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
we don't have to wait that long. If it was terrorism we will almost see | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
a claim of responsibility before then, it may be true, it may not be. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
It may be some group or other looking to cash in on what turns out | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
to be a mechanical failure. Thanks to Frank for that. We have a picture | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
of the plane itself, the one that has gone missing this is this | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
Airbus, used by EgyptAir, and we know that 66 people were onboard, | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
and of those people, 30 were Egyptians, 15 were French citizen, | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
two were Iraqis, and there was one person from Britain, Canada, | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Belgium, Kuwait. Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan Chad and Portugal. We | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
talked about the airports in Paris and Cairo. This is a picture of one | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
Egyptian minister who came to the airport to speak to relatives of | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
those onboard. This is the French Foreign Affairs minister who did the | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
same in Paris meeting those relatives at a hotel close to the | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
airport. To remind you, this plane took off at 11pm in the evening in | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
Paris it headed south-east in the direction of Cairo. It was very | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
close to landing but it came down south of Greece, in the | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
Mediterranean, lost touch with Egyptian Air Traffic Control at | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
2.30. Just to remind you, this is probably the most significant | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
element of the story at the moment. We have completely contradictory | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
accounts of what has happened in the Mediterranean. Today the Egyptian | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Ministry of Civil Aviation saying it has confirmation that wreckage from | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
the plane has been found, then this from the Associated Press quoting a | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
security Greek official saying that debris that has been found is not | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
from the plane that, at the moment it is impossible for us to tell | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
which account we should go with. So that is some of the latest | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
information on this story, we will keep on covering it for the next | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
half an hour, I hope you can stay with me. | :25:56. | :26:00. |