EgyptAir A320 believed lost over Mediterranean Sea

The airline said that the aircraft, carrying 66 passengers and crew had disappeared from radar in Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean Sea. A later report from the Egyptian civil aviation ministry said Egyptian military received a distress signal.
"An official source at EgyptAir stated that Flight MS804, which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST), heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar," the airline said on its official Twitter account.
The airline said the aircraft had been at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,280 meters), when it disappeared at 02:45 a.m., 20 minutes before it was due to land at 03:05 a.m., after entering Egyptian airspace.
Egypt's civil aviation ministry said search and rescue teams from Egypt’s military are looking for the missing jet. Greece has also deployed a ship in a search for wreckage.
The pilot is reported to have had clocked up 6,275 hours of flying experience, including 2,101 hours on the A320, while the first officer had 2,766 hours.

Among the 56 passengrs there are 12 different nationalities.

Egypt has suffered several issues in the past year.

An Airbus A321 operated by Russia’s Metrojet crashed in the Sinai on Oct. 31, 2015, killing all 224 people on board. Russia and Western governments have said the plane was likely brought down by a bomb, and the Islamic State militant group said it had smuggled an explosive device on board.

In March, an EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt. He was arrested after giving himself up.