Not good.
Plane appears to have been missing about three hours, the airline just started tweeting about it an hour ago.
It went off radar just after it entered Egyptian airspace.
Update:
Via NY Times:
Ehab Mohy el-Deen, the head of Egypt’s air navigation authority, said that Greek air traffic controllers notified their Egyptian counterparts that they had lost contact with the plane. “They did not radio for help or lose altitude. They just vanished,” he said.
He added that it was too early to speculate on the cause of the disappearance or the fate of the airplane, “but this is not normal, of course.”
Further details about the flight were not immediately available early Thursday.
Last October, a Russian jetliner broke up in midair 23 minutes after takeoff from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board.
In February, Egyptian authorities said that terrorists had brought down the Airbus A321-200, which was packed with Russian vacationers.
Update:
Via NY Post:
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers — including a child and two babies — and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday, authorities said.
An Egyptian search plane located two orange items believed to be from the missing airliner, Greek officials said.
Flight 804, an Airbus A320, was cruising at 37,000 feet when it plunged 22,000 feet, spun 360 degrees to the right and disappeared, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said.
French President Francois Hollande confirmed that the airliner crashed. It was carrying carrying 56 passengers and 10 crew members.
Update:
Via Daily Mail:
Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi also said the possibility of a terror attack was a ‘stronger’ possibility than technical failure.
The head of Russia’s top domestic security agency, Alexander Bortnikov, also claimed it was ‘in all likelihood it was a terror attack’.
Meanwhile, Jean-Paul Troadec, the former chief of the BEA national investigation unit, said the lack of a live emergency alert meant it was almost certainly destroyed in a terror attack.
He told Europe 1 radio station in Paris: ‘A technical problem, a fire or a failed motor do not cause an instant accident and the team has time to react.
‘The team said nothing, they did not react, so it was very probably a brutal event and we can certainly think about an attack.’