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EGYPTAIR 320-200 SU-GCC(cn2088)

Istanbul Ataturk airport ....June 2007..First flight 25/07/2003.On Thursday 19 May 2016 the EgyptAir flight MS804, impacted the Mediterranean Sea some 200 km north of the Egyptian coast line.

The aircraft, departed Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, at 23:21 hours local time on May 18. Scheduled departure time was 22:45 hours.

Last contact with the flight was at FL370, about 02:29 hours. Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 suggests the aircraft had just entered the Cairo FIR via the KUMBI waypoint and was about 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace when contact was lost.

About 19:00 hours local time EgyptAir confirmed that pieces of wreckage were found at sea.

Greek military authorities earlier reported that their primary radar showed the aircraft suddenly taking a 90 degree turn left, followed by a 360 degrees turn in the opposite direction as it descended from FL370 to FL150 before disappearing off radars.

66 people on board were killed.

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Taken on June 3, 2007