EgyptAir flight MS804: airliner confirms it has found wreckage near Greece – live

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

EgyptAir has said that Cairo’s foreign ministry has “confirmed finding the wreckage” in an English statement on Facebook.

EgyptAir resource stated that the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation has just received an official letter from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that confirms the finding of wreckage of the missing aircraft No. MS 804 near Karpathos Island.

EgyptAir sincerely conveys its deepest sorrow to the families and friends of the passengers onboard Flight MS804. Family members of passengers and crew have been already informed and we extend our deepest sympathies to those affected.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian Investigation Team in co-operation with the Greek counterpart are still searching for other remains of the missing plane.

In a series of tweets the airliner said that investigators found floating materials likely to be wreckage, life jackets and plastic debris.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/may/19/egyptair-plane-cairo-paris-live-updates

[milestogo]

1. You need to fix the link.

[MADem]

2. Your link is hosed up. It goes to "post a new thread." nt

[brooklynite]

3. fixed

[bdwker]

4. Just ask yourself.... Who benefits the most from this attack?

and you have your answer.

[leftynyc]

5. No - I think I'll wait

to find out what happened and either blame the airline for failing to maintain the plane or the terrorists that blew it up. Your conspiracy bullshit is just that - bullshit.

[Schema Thing]

6. er, I'm not getting an answer back from me. :/

Who do you think it benefits most, and how do you have said knowledge?

[uppityperson]

7. No. I'd rather wait to make sure of the cause rather than jump to conclusions based

on preconceptions.

[Renew Deal]

9. How do you benefit from calling it an attack without evidence?

[alarimer]

10. The Airbus A320 has had rudder issues in the past

A flight that crashed in 2014 was blamed on this. So I really think it may be too soon to blame this on terror. No one has claimed responsibility either, that we know of (not that they always do that either). I just think that when there is a prior history of issues, it makes sense to look there first.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2015/1201/AirAsia-crash-blamed-on-Airbus-A320-rudder-system-problem-and-pilot-error

[Igel]

11. It's a bad question.

It's a common question, but a bad one.

How do we know who benefits most? It rather assumes we have perfect knowledge of facts and situations and we have no biases of our own. Both are foolish assumptions.

But, more importantly, who thinks they benefit from it? Because somebody may think they'll benefit from it and just be wrong, not benefiting from it in the least (or even being hurt by it).

And if we knew who would benefit the most (or believed they would), did they have opportunity and means?

Does that mean they actually did it, or is our mere hypothesis considered proof?

At most, it allows the formation of suspicions and a hypothesis.

[uppityperson]

8. RIP to those on the plane, may it have been over quickly for them. I hope authorities can find the

in flight information systems and be able to determine what happened quickly.

[uppityperson]

12. They retracted that claim now.

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-36328976
EgyptAir has retracted its claim that wreckage from its missing plane had been found in the Mediterranean, CNN reports.

This would confirm an earlier statement by Greece's lead air accident investigator Athanasios Binis, who said the wreckage found near the Greek island of Karpathos was not from the missing Airbus A320.

#EgyptAir VP now tells CNN wreckage has not yet been found. "We stand corrected," he tells @jaketapper cnn.it/1Tss9wk
Christiane Amanpour
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#EgyptAir VP now tells CNN wreckage has not yet been found. "We stand corrected," he tells @jaketapper cnn.it/1Tss9wk

[Roland99]

13. Malaysia air all over again