{UAH} EgyptAir Plane: What Could Have Happened?
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EgyptAir Plane: What Could Have Happened?
As the search for a missing EgyptAir jet continues, aviation experts are suggesting possible explanations for the aircraft's disappearance.
French president Francois Hollande said all the information gathered so far indicates the plane has crashed into the sea.
He added that no hypothesis had been ruled out.
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:: MECHANICAL FAULT
Aeronautics expert Gerard Feldzer said the chances of a mechanical malfunction are slim.
"It's a modern plane, the incident happened in mid-flight in extremely stable conditions. The quality of the maintenance and the quality of the plane are not in question in this incident."
:: TERRORISM
Air travel expert Julian Bray said that no alert being made could mean the airliner suffered a catastrophic failure, possibly as a result of an explosion.
"There's a lot of concentrated focus on terrorist issues around Paris but one has to be cautious about drawing conclusions.
"It would not have needed to be a large device - if it was a terrorist-related failure - to lose cabin pressure," he added.
Will Geddes, managing director of private security firm International Corporate Protection, urged people to be "cautious" about assuming the disappearance was caused by terrorism because the flight had departed from Paris, which has suffered several attacks in recent years.
"There's a lot of concentrated focus on terrorist issues around Paris but one has to be cautious about drawing conclusions," he said.
:: HUMAN INTERVENTION
Commercial airline pilot Chris McGee told Sky News there were only two circumstances that would prevent a pilot from contacting air traffic control.
"One would be if there was human intervention.
"The second possibility, which is also very unprecedented, is that something has occurred on the flight deck which means we are simply too busy, we have got to handle what is happening to the aircraft at that point in time and we do that first.
"The first thing you are taught is fly the airplane first, handle the problem, and then communicate. So if you have got your hands full that is potentially why you wouldn't talk to air traffic."
:: WEATHER CONDITIONS
European air traffic network manager Eurocontrol said there were no weather issues at the time of the plane losing contact.
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