Egypt: U.S. Navy Joins Search for Debris of Egyptair Flight

Cairo — The U.S. Navy has continued its search operations, which began on Thursday, for EgyptAir flight MS804 in coordination with the Egyptian rescue mission, according to the U.S. embassy in Cairo.

Egypt's flag-carrier airline, EgyptAir, announced early Thursday morning that its flight MS804 vanished off the radar 16 km (10 miles) into Egyptian airspace as it was crossing the Mediterranean at 2:45 AM Cairo time en route from Paris to Cairo. News of debris found belonging to the missing flight came later that day, as the foreign ministry confirmed, indicating the plane had crashed in the sea.

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