Debris and body from EgyptAir flight MS804 found

Debris from the missing EgyptAir Flight 804 plane have been located by Egyptian vessels in the Mediterranean sea, also recovered were “body part”, two seats and suitcases said, Greece’s defence minister, Panos Kammenos, on Friday but that the cause of crash was still not clear.

“A short while ago we were briefed by the Egyptian authorities ... on the discovery of a body part, a seat and baggage just south of where the aircraft signal was lost,” Kammenos told reporters in Athens. Flight MS804 had taken a normal course through Greek airspace before the plane abruptly took sharp turns, he said, adding that the cause of Thursday’s crash was still a matter of speculation.
EgyptAir Flight 804 went missing at around 2.30am local time on Thursday morning with 56 passengers and 10 crew on board from Paris to Cairo.

Greece’s lead air accident investigator, Athanasios Binis, said the “point of reference” was an area 130 miles south of the Greek island of Karpathos. The location is now the centre of a major international air and sea operation to find the plane’s black boxes.
“The most important thing is that the plane’s two black boxes are found,” Binis said. “If the cockpit flight recorder and flight data recorder are found, along with wreckage, then a real investigation can begin,”.
“There are three reasons for a plane [to go down],” he said. “Meteorological, technical and human. The first has now been ruled out because the weather was quite good. Whether a technical factor or human factor, either inside or outside the plane, is to blame remains to be seen. All possibilities are open.”

Egypt has been leading the search effort, with support from France, Greece, Turkey and the UK.

No group has claimed responsibility for the crash yet.