An airplane flying from Paris to Cairo, Egypt went missing early Thursday somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea. The plane has yet to be tracked down, but what officials have turned up in its place has been pretty disturbing.
All that has been found of the missing EgyptAir Flight 804, so far, are what seem to be body parts, seats and suitcases, according to CNN. These debris were found about five miles south of the point at which the aircraft lost contact with the radar, nearly 200 miles north of Alexandria.
ABC News reported that there were 66 people aboard the flight.
And that’s not even the worst part of it—Egyptian officials apparently suspect terrorism was the cause of the missing plane. However, the cause is officially unknown and the crash has yet to turn up any evidence of a terrorist attack.
“The searching, sweeping and retrieval process is underway,” said Egyptian military spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammad Samir to CNN. “But we do not have as yet an official announcement if these findings do have to do with the particular aircraft.”
Search teams are sweeping through a large area south of the Greek island of Crete for the airplane. According to ABC, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said that the investigations by both Egyptian and Greek crews are continuing “to establish the truth and the causes of the crash.” Unfortunately, no large sources of a wreck have been found.
The New York Times reported that Flight 804 apparently dropped 28,000 feet and began to fly in erratic circles right before it lost touch with the radar around 2:30 a.m.
People around the world have been deeply saddened by the probable loss of those who were aboard the plane—especially in Egpyt, which could claim almost half of the passengers. President el-Sisi of the Egypt “with utmost sadness and regret, mourns the victims on board the EgyptAir flight who were killed,” according to the Times.
The information is still developing as search teams in the Mediterranean scour the area for the missing plane. CNN reports that search teams are still looking for the plane’s “black boxes,” which contain flight data and voice recordings, and could help illuminate the cause of the crash. We send love and condolences to Egypt and any other countries who lost people because of this terrible tragedy. We also hope that terrorism did not play a role in or claim anymore lives through this plane crash.