{UAH} TRAGEDY OF EGYPT AIRLINES CRASH.

Telegraph News Live
EgyptAir crash: Flight data seems to 'point towards a bomb' as first
images of debris emerge

EgyptAir flight MS804 crashed with 56 passengers and 10 crew on board
All passengers, including British geologist Richard Osman, feared dead
Who are the victims? What we know so far
'Smoke detected inside the aircraft cabin'
Experts say flight data 'seems to point towards a bomb'

Body parts and suitcases from the missing flight found
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1:00PM
Egyptian government denies black box located
A source at the Civil Aviation ministry is now denying reports that
the black boxes have been found. They tell the Egyptian newspaper
Al-Masry Al-Youm that if the black boxes had been found they would
notify the public "immediately".

The chaotic and contradicting claims out of Egypt continue.

12:58PM
Video: Debris pulled from the sea
Egypt's military has released a short video showing the operation to
pull debris out of the Mediterranean. The footage shows shoes,
handbags and other forlorn items being sifted through on the deck of
an Egyptian naval ship.

EgyptAir remains recovered from Mediterranean Play! 01:07


12:15PM
Black box 'located'
Egyptian government sources are telling CBS News that they have
located Flight 804's black boxes in the Mediterranean and are working
to recover them. A military spokesman refused to comment on the
report.

If that is confirmed - and there have been several false starts so far
- it would be a major step forward in figuring out what happened to
the flight.

The two data recorders, as long as they are intact, will tell
investigators what was said in the cockpit in the plane's final
minutes and will record data about the aircraft's final movements.

11:27AM
Egyptian military releases first photos of debris from Flight MS804
The Egyptian military has released the first photos of the debris from
Flight MS804 collected so far.

The pictures show a forlorn collection of scraps of seats, bits of
cloth from the cabin's interior, lifejackets that were likely never
used and parts of aircraft wreckage.

The first debris was found yesterday morning, around 180 miles north
of Alexandria.

Debris recovered from the sea
Debris from Flight MS804
Images of the wreckage of the missing plane and some belongings of
passengers from Egypt Air flight posted on facebook
Part of the wreck


10:43AM
French to test Euro 2016 security measures tonight at the Stade de
France amid terror fears
Jannat Jalil in Paris reports

Paris Security measures to be used for the Euro 2016 football
championship will be tested tonight at a match between Paris
Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille at the Stade de France, which
was targeted in November's terrorist attacks.

New 2.4 metre-high fencing has been built around the stadium to form
what officials say is a "insurmountable wall". Snipers will posted
around the stadium and elite police will be deployed. Around 1,000
security officers and at least 550 police will protect the match, and
extra CCTV cameras have been installed and buildings near the stadium
will be searched.

In addition to the terror threat, Marseille and Paris fans will be
kept apart to avoid violence, a frequent problem at matches between
PSG and OM.

France is hosting the Euros from June 10 to July 10, amid heightened
fears of another terrorist attack. Ten sniffer-dogs trained to find
explosives of the sort used in suicide vests and belts are to be used
to screen crowds entering the controversial fan zones where tens of
thousands will watch matches on giant screens. Another 30 sniffer dogs
are to be deployed at French railway stations.

A former French police chief has warned that the huge fan zone planned
near the Eiffel Tower will "offer terrorists a chance to carry out a
massacre".

10:38AM
EgyptAir not part of new Paris airport passenger security check testing
Jannat Jalil in Paris reports

Charles de Gaulle airport will begin testing a passenger screening
tool known as the passenger name record (PNR) next week. The system,
already in use in Britain, identifies passengers whose profiles
indicate a potential risk. It cross-references names, addresses and
means of payment with police crime and terrorism files.

However, EgyptAir will not be among the eight airlines that will take
part in the trial, which the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve,
says is long overdue.

The system is to become fully operational by the end of the year in
France, which has received nearly £14 million in EU aid to finance its
introduction. It can detect passengers who have travelled to
countries such as Syria and Yemen, with their return dates.

10:25AM
Experts say flight data seems to point towards a bomb
Raf Sanchez in Cairo reports

To the untrained eyes, the data recorded by Flight 804's sensors is a
meaningless jumble of code and technical language:

00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW

00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR

00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE

00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE

00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR

00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT

00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT

But to an aviation professional, it tells a terrifying story of a
series of cascading faults before the system went dead entirely. I
spoke to a European airline pilot who helped make sense of the data
from the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting
System).

The data on its own is far from definitive but the pilot believed "an
internal explosion" seemed the most likely cause, explaining both the
sudden problems with the windows and the smoke in the cabin. "It looks
like the right front and side windows were blown out, most probably
from inside out," the pilot said.

There is still a lot we don't know. But the data from ACARS seems to
point towards a bomb.

9:29AM
EgyptAir flights resume from Paris to Cairo
Magdy Samaan in Cairo reports

EgyptAir has resumed its flights from Paris to Cairo with another
Airbus 330. The number of the flight was changed from MS 804 to MS 802
from Paris to Cairo and from MS 803 to MS 801 from Cairo to Paris.

Meanwhile around 15 of the French victims' families arrived in Cairo
this morning. They were received by officials French embassy officials
in Cairo and Cairo Airport's Public Relation officers. They were then
accompanied to a hotel near the airport.

The families are waiting to hear about any information on the cause of
the crash, as well as being on hand to identify and collect their
loved ones bodies, which will be taken to morgues in Cairo.



8:05AM
Mapped: Where the wreckage is located
Fight MS804 search area


5:53AM
What we know so far
As the authorities start to sift through the wreckage which has been
found in the Mediterranean 180 miles north of Alexandria,
investigators will try to discover what led to smoke being detected in
the cabin shortly before the crash.

While the presence of smoke inside the Airbus A320 is consistent with
an explosion, some experts believe that it is also evidence of some
form of technical fault.

Details of smoke in the aircraft emerged from data pulled from the
A320's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS)
and published in the Aviation Herald.

It shows that smoke was detected in the aircraft lavatory at 2.26 am,
with a second sensor going off a minute later with further faults
until 2.29 am, when the system ceased recording.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people "familiar with the
matter" say that the alerts could be an indication of a problem with
the flight control system.

While not ruling out a bomb, Bob Mann, a US aviation expert, says the
latest data indicate a number of possibilities. "The data could
indicate rapid decompression or smoke and a progressive loss of flight
control systems.

Debris found from missing EgyptAir plane Play! 01:16
Investigators will get a far better idea of what cause the crash when
they find the black box flight recorders, detailing what happened in
the final moments before the plane plummeted into the Mediterranean.
But they could take a long time to locate.

It took two years to find the blackboxes belonging to Air France
flight 447 which plunged into the Atlantic killing 228 people.

Another indication, however, would be the state of the fuselage. If
the crash was caused by a bomb there would be some explosive residue
and the force of the blast would have been expected to have buckled
some of the aircraft's body.

Debris found from missing EgyptAir plane Play! 01:21
EgyptAir flight MS804 left Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris for
Cairo at 21.09 GMT on Wednesday. It was due to land at 01.15 GMT.
There were 56 passengers and 10 crew on board.

The plane lost contact as it left Greek airspace while cruising at
37,000 feet and before it was handed on to Egyptian air traffic
control.

In other developments:

• Egypt's government has told the families of the 66 people on
board there are no survivors.

• The nationalities of those on board include 30 Egyptians, 15
French citizens, two Iraqis, two Canadians and one national from from
the UK, Algeria, Belgium, Chad, Kuwait, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and
Sudan.

• The Briton was named as Richard Osman, 40, who became a father
for the second time just over three weeks ago.

• Body parts, luggage and parts of the Airbus have been found in
the Mediterranean about 180 miles north of Alexandria

• Neither Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) nor al-Qaeda
have claimed responsibility for the crash.

• Egypt has set up an investigation into the crash, which will be
headed by pilot Ayman al-Moqadem, the head of Egypt's commission of
aviation accidents

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