And coming up, chuck robins talking earnings. Thats moments away. Our top story in s. An egyptair flight. This appeared from radar over the mediterranean. They had 66 passengers and crew onboard. Weve been watching this story and she joins thus morning. Good morning. We just heard from the minister of Civil Aviation in egypt. He said he is launching a joint investigation with french authorities trying to find out what happened to egyptair flight 804. The big question Going Forward is what exactly happened once this plane left the radar. What we understand is that happened around 2 30 a. M. They were 20 minutes from landing. This was in the southern mediterranean. The Greek Defense minister saying that the plane was making sharp swerving moves before it was lost from the radar. Now what we heard a few moments ago from the egyptian authorities is the reports coming out of greece were as yet unconfirmed and they said theyre going to refuse to provide this plane anything but missing until
Last location is now closed indefinitely. The greek government has sent in ships and planes to search for any clues. And the u. S. Navy is also now involved at the request of the greeks. Family members and loved ones arrive at the airports, both in paris and cairo to wait for any answers. Lets get right to our correspondents here in the United States and around the world. Joining me live from chicago, tom costello who covers aviation. Good morning. Whats the latest youre hearing on this very early stages of the investigation . A couple of headlines. There are some unconfirmed reports out from other News Agencies in that region, in the Mediterranean Region suggesting there may have been some pieces of debris spotted. Nbc news is working to confirm that. The idea, according to these reports, was this debris may have been spotted near a greek island. Well get more on that as we have it. In addition to that, you have the Greek Military chief saying that Greek Military radar showed the plan
Officials who are investigating this. Greek officials right now say debris has been found that may be from the egyptair jetliner that disappeared over the mediterranean while in route paris to cairo. It vanished more than 14 hours ago and darkness is fast approaching in the search area. There are under two hours of daylight left. 66 people were on board the airbus a320, no americans among them. At the News Conference a few hours ago egypts af yan minister said a terror attack is more likely than mechanical failure. Greeces defense minister said the aircraft just entered egyptian air space near the end of the fourhour flight when the plane dropped 22,000 feet and swerved sharply before it disappeared from radar. Egyptair flight 804 was a half hour from landing in cairo when radar contact was lost. We know the weather was good and flight crew very experienced. We have all of this covered. Lets bring in Kelly Cobiella standing by with the latest out of the News Conference. What can you te
Urgency if thats the case. Thats right, tamron, it required quite a bit of prodding on the part of reporters to get the aviation chief in egypt to go that far when he started this press conference about an hour ago really. He wouldnt even confirm that this in fact is a plane crash that were talking about, insisting on calling this a missing plane until debris is found. Were now getting these bits of information from various different sources that something has been found in this search area according to one greek official, were being told that findings have been spotted in the sea, some 130 miles southsoutheast of karpathos, this island in the south agean sea. There are reports from reuters and others saying that two objects have been found, more than two objects have been found in describing them but we really dont have a confirmation on what has been spotted and whether in fact it is from this missing flight 804. Just to give you a rundown of the time line, you mentioned it a little