All EgyptAir flights will convene according to initially planned schedules, EgyptAir said on Thursday, after one of its flights disappeared off the radar 10 miles away from Egyptian airspace. The company said in a statement that 48 international and domestic … read more
By Lin Noueihed and Lefteris Papadimas CAIRO/ATHENS (Reuters) – An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean sea on Thursday after swerving in mid-air and plunging from cruising height. French … read more
Egypt’s foreign ministry exchanged condolences with France on Thursday over what it called the “fall” of an EgyptAir flight. The statement was the first official admission that those on board were likely to have died. Egypt said in a foreign … read more
An EgyptAir passenger airplane, on a flight from Paris to Cairo early Thursday morning, has crashed according to Egyptian aviation officials cited by the Associated Press (AP). Civil aviation spokesman Ihab Raslan, said the plane vanished about 10 miles after … read more
The Egyptian military received a distress signal from the MS804 passenger plane flying from Paris to Cairo at 4:26 a.m. local time over the Mediterranean Sea, an EgyptAir source said Thursday. “It has been reported by the search and rescu … read more
1. There Are 56 Passengers & 10 Crew on the Plane The airline says there are 56 passengers and 10 crew onboard the Airbus A320-232 plane. The passengers include 53 adults, two infants and one child. The crew includes two … read more
A statement from EgyptAir’s official Twitter account appears to confirm reports that Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo has gone missing In a series of tweets on the incident the airline cites an “informed source” as stating that the flight, … read more
Egypt Independent Egyptian health officials said on Thursday that the three bottled mineral water comapnies Nestle, Aquafina and Baraka had produced bottled water that was unfit for human consumption. According to a joint statement from the General Directorate of Food … read more
Egypt’s foreign currency shortage crisis is moving towards further complexity, according to projections made by the credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s. The agency said on Friday that it will reduce Egypt’s credit rating from stable to negative, reflecting its … read more
Egypt’s soaring heat wave is set to break and will drop 10 degrees Celsius on Tuesday to 34, Egypt’s meteorological authority said on Monday. The authority’s spokesperson, Waheed Seoudi, said in a TV interview on Monday that the weather is … read more