All while dropping like a rock one official said down to 15,000 feet. And then at 10,000 feet, disappearing off the radar. There had been no distress call from the crew about the egyptians said an emergency beacon may have been act vaid activated. An air and sea search was launched including this u. S. Or ion sent from sis illy. And later in the day what looked like debris was sighted by the captain of a ship in the area. Although greek official was not confirm this came from the plane. By chance, the aircraft involved in todays crash was seen in brussels last year. But if it was destroyed by a bomb, its not clear where that could have been put on board. In the past day the plane had flown to aritria, to tunisia and then to paris. An explosive device on a timer could have been loaded anywhere says cbs news transportation security analyst and former ntsb chairman mark rosenker. Thats why the investigators are going to be looking at all of the stops that this aircraft made prior to comin
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All while dropping like a rock one official said down to 15,000 feet. And then at 10,000 feet, disappearing off the radar. There had been no distress call from the crew about the egyptians said an emergency beacon may have been act vaid activated. An air and sea search was launched including this u. S. Or ion sent from sis illy. And later in the day what looked like debris was sighted by the captain of a ship in the area. Although greek official was not confirm this came from the plane. By chance, the aircraft involved in todays crash was seen in brussels last year. But if it was destroyed by a bomb, its not clear where that could have been put on board. In the past day the plane had flown to aritria, to tunisia and then to paris. An explosive device on a timer could have been loaded anywhere says cbs news transportation security analyst and former ntsb chairman mark rosenker. Thats why the investigators are going to be looking at all of the stops that this aircraft made prior to comin
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Rose good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im charlie rose. And we beginre begin with a mystery. What happened to egypt air flight 804. The air bus a320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea some time after 8 00 eastern time last night between the greek isle of crete and the egyptian coast. There were 56 passengers and a crew of 10 on board, none of them american. The United States has joand the search for the plane, and the National Transportation safety board is assisting egypt in the investigation. We have extensive coverage, beginning with Mark Phillips in paris. Reporter this was the second egypt air plane to leave paris in the past day that no one wanted to be on. This flight was taking grieving family members to cairo. Their relatives, who had left on last nights flight, never made it. Egypt air flight 804 had been at its normal cruising altitude over greek air space over the eastern mediterranean, when some time after 2 00 a. M. Local