Egypt’s president called on Egyptian and international media on Sunday not to consider “a certain scenario” more likely than others regarding the cause of the EgyptAir plane crash that killed all 66 persons on board. “All scenarios are possible,” Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said in a speech he gave at the inauguration of expansions in a fertilizer factory in Egypt’s Damietta province. 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. The 12-year-old Airbus A320-232 jetliner had 56 passengers on board – 30 Egyptians, 15 French nationals, two Iraqi nationals, a British national, a Saudi national, a Portuguese national, a Belgian, a Kuwaiti, a Chadian, an Algerian and a Canadian. It also had a 10-member crew on board. Sisi said that the Egyptian public prosecutor ordered an investigation into the cause behind the crash in coordination with the French government. France, where the plane was manufactured, is taking part in the investigation because it is the country with the second largest number…
Egypt’s President Sisi Urges Media to Not Speculate on EgyptAir Crash
May 22, 2016
