May 19, 2016: An EgyptAir plane carrying 66 people has disappeared after taking off from France’s Charles de Gaulle airport late Wednesday night. Flight MS804 was on its way to Cairo when it vanished from radar.

Contact with the airline was lost around ten miles inside Egyptian airspace when the aircraft was travelling at 37,000ft. An Egyptian civil aviation authority said that the plane had most likely crashed into the sea. There were no distress calls either from the plane.

It comes more than two years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014.

Jean-Paul Troadec, the former chief of France’s air accident investigation unit, the BEA, said the disappearance suggested a “brutal event” and was “almost certainly” caused by “an attack”.

The Greek Merchant Navy has reported seeing a “flame in the sky” in the south Mediterranean.

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