Egypt Air crash - newsletter update

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An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo crashed with 66 people aboard after vanishing from radar early Thursday. Officials are scrambling to find out what happened to the Airbus A320, which was carrying 56 passengers and 10 crewmembers. Here's what we know:

Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi says the possibility of a terror attack as the cause of flight MS804's demise is “stronger” than technical failure. French President Francois Hollande said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash.
Greek officials say the plane apparently made two sharp turns then suddenly lost altitude before vanishing from radar.
EgyptAir says the Airbus A320 commercial jet lost radar contact at 2:45 a.m. local time at 37,000 feet. The aircraft normally travels the 1,993-mile distance from Paris to Cairo in 4 hours and 20 minutes.
Egyptian and Greek authorities say the plane likely went down near the Greek island of Crete.
Greek TV reports two floating orange objects that could be airplane debris were spotted in the ocean 50 miles southeast of the area where the plane disappeared.
Relatives of passengers aboard the missing flight are arriving at Cairo airport and at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where crisis centers were set up.
No Americans were reported to be on the flight. EgyptAir listed the nationalities of the passengers as: 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis and one each from Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria, Canada, Great Britain, Belgium, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. One child and two infants were among those aboard.
Egypt’s state news agency quoted Prime Minister Sherif Ismail as saying there was no "distress call" issued from the plane before it went down.

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