What we know so far:
As dawn approaches in Egypt, with first light set to assist the search and rescue operation, here is a summary of what we now know about missing EgyptAir flight MS804, which has been missing since 2.30am local time (04.30 GMT) Thursday morning.
EgyptAir has rowed back on an earlier announcement that wreckage belonging to MS804 had been spotted in the Mediterranean, close to the Greek island of Karpathos. “We stand corrected,” the airline’s vice-president Ahmed Adel said. The debris “is not our aircraft”.
The Egyptian navy, air force and army are searching the sea to the north of Egypt’s coast, with French, Greek, British and US support.
Egypt’s aviation minister Sherif Fathy said terrorism was more likely than technical failure to be the cause of the crash. “The possibility of having a terror attack is higher than the possibility of having a technical [problem],” he told reporters.
