EgyptAir crash: Body part, seats, luggage found

A body part, seats and some items of passengers’ luggage from the ill-fated EgyptAir jet were found on Friday by the Egyptian military searching for the wreckage of the aircraft a day after the plane en route to Cairo from Paris crashed in the Mediterranean with 66 people on board.

“Egyptian aircraft and navy vessels have found personal belongings of passengers and parts of the wreckage 290 kilometres north of Alexandria,” Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said on his Facebook page. In Athens, Greece’s defence minister Panos Kammenos said a body part, seats and some items of luggage were found by military crews searching for the wreckage of the jet.

“A few hours earlier we were informed (by Egyptian authorities) that a body part, two seats and one or more items of luggage where found in the search area” north of the coastal Egyptian city of Alexandria, he told journalists. The discovery of the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight MS804 near Alexandria comes as the navy continues to sweep the area looking for the plane’s black box and bodies. There were no signs of survivors after the Airbus A320 “swerved and then plunged” into the Mediterranean. The plane, on its fifth journey of the day, was travelling at 37,000 feet when it disappeared from radar. It had made a stop in Tunisia before flying to Paris.