(Reuters) - An EgyptAir plane with 66 people on board, en route from Paris to Cairo, disappeared from radar overnight as it flew over the Mediterranean.
"An official EgyptAir source said that flight MS804, which departed Paris at 23,09pm (Cest) and was bound for Cairo, has disappeared from radar," the airline said on Twitter.
Subsequent tweets from EgyptAir explain that the aircraft, which was traveling at an altitude of 11.280 meters, went missing at 2,45am, 20 minutes before its scheduled landing time, when it was already in Egyptian airspace.
According to sources from the airline and the Egyptian civil aviation, the plane probably crashed into the sea.
The Egyptian state newspaper Ahram reports that no danger signals had arrived from the plane and that the last contact had taken place 10 minutes before it disappeared from the radar.
There were 320 passengers (including one toddler and two infants) and 56 crew members on the Airbus A10, EgyptAir said.
Among the people on board were 30 Egyptians, 15 Frenchmen, one Briton and one Belgian, Egypt's aviation ministry said.
According to flightradar24.com the aircraft, which was 12 years old, was over the Mediterranean when it went missing.
