Flight took off. Greg . Kimberly, the terminal behind me charles degal airport is where that flight left from a little wit more than 24 hours ago. But now tonight, there are more questions about the deadly mystery of egypt air 804. First of all, the airline is now saying this just came across in the past couple of hours, that the doe bree found in the mediterranean off of the coast of egypt is not necessarily from their stricken plane. There is a massive hunt in the waters in the mediterranean to try to come up with any debris, any signs of the plane. They are also saying, according to in multiple intelligence sources here in the United States and elsewhere, fox news can say that no blast was senile, no infrared signal was seen via the satellite. It was thought that perhaps a bomb on board could have brought the plane down, descended into deadly spiral into the mediterranean so far no big sign of problems on that plane. Its this kind of confusion, its this kind of horror, kimberly that
Brought down the missing jet, but they have yet to find any indications of an explosion. Im not aware of any sensors that picked anything up on this. Reporter terrorism is current think a suspicion, not based on nany concrete evidence translator we need to give the maximum amount of information in order to gival tru the truth. We owe this to the families. Reporter and at 1 48 a. M. , not responding to repeated calls just 40 minutes later. After another 2 minutes, completely dropping off radar. Egypt aviation referring to this strange pattern it seems more likely to have been a terrorist attack. Having a terror attack is higher than the possibility of having a technical. Reporter and greek Officials Say the plane swerved, then plunged, before apparently falling into the mediterranean. U. S. Officials say the swerving may just be the pieces of plane in the sky picked up by radar, supporting the here to think was some kind of explosion 37,000 feet in the air. The aircraft scheduled mainte
Over 6,000 hours of flying time over 2,000 in this specific type of plane. His co pilot over 2,000 hours of flying time. The weather was fine when they dropped off the radar. Usually this would suggest a catastrophic event, high drop in pressure. No one is suggesting that is what it is egyptair has gone to Great Lengths to say no one should jump to conclusions. The Prime Minister saying nothing can be discounted. They are setting up meetings with the National Security advisors. The french issued their condolences to those involved. That is the first suggestion everyone on the plane may have died. Of those 56 passengers, 30 egyptians, 15 french, one britain, one belgium and a few from other countries. 7 staff on board and 3 Security Officials which is normal operating procedure for this kind of flight. Security is the highest all over europe all over the world in aviation. Charlesdegaulle is such a major airport that something got on board is remarkable. Waiting to hear if it was. Egypt
Of plane involved. It took off from Charles De Gaulle airport just after 11 00 p. M. Local time wednesday. 56 passengers including children were on board, including two babies. The pilot sent an emergency signal at 2 26 a. M. However, the Egyptian Military denies ever having received a signal. The plane was 10 miles into egyptian airspace and was flying at 37,000 feet. And it vanished from radar at about 10 minutes later. Egyptair confirming an automated emergency distress signal was sent from the plane two hours after it crashed. So lets get right to benjamin howell. Hes been following the breaking news as has heather. He is live in london. What can you tell us so far . Reporter well, good morning, there have been a lot of conflicting reports over the last few hours. This plane has crashed somewhere off the coast of egypt, maybe 100, 150 miles north. This distress signal that everyone is talking about, at first we heard there was no distress signal. It vanished. There were reports fro
Governments, other officials that theyre saying this plane has crashed, but the real question is, where is it if theres any survivors, can they rescue them and then theyll be looking at what are the causes of this plane going down. So a lot of variables right now, and here at the airport weve been seeing family members coming in and what theyre telling us is that egyptian officials arent giving them enough information and of course when youre a loved one, youre waiting to hear about a family member, not no amount of information really is enough, but they are frustrated. They say they want to know, but this again is still very early in this investigation about nine hours since the plane disappeared from radar. So egyptian officials are trying to piece together where exactly this plane is and what exactly happened. We can only imagine the uncertainty and the fear of those family members. Thank you for the reporting. Well check back with you. Frances president meanwhile convening an emerg