Debris from a missing EgyptAir plane was discovered this morning roughly 180 miles north of Alexandria, as well as some personal belongings of the passengers,
Egypt Armed Forces said.
A U.S. plane involved in the search for the jet has also spotted several floating objects, including what’s believed to be an airplane seat and some luggage, a Greek search-and-rescue official told ABC News.
The debris will be transported by boat to Alexandria first, before ending up in Cairo, officials said.
Meanwhile, an Egypt Air spokesman has confirmed the identities of the flight officers as pilot Mohammed Shukair and co-pilot Mohamed Assem.
So far, Egyptian officials have suggested that the incident was more likely caused by terrorism than a technical problem. But U.S. officials said its government satellites have shown no indications of an explosion along the flight path.
"I don’t want to go to assumptions like others, but if you analyze the situation properly, the possibility...of having a terror attack is higher than having a technical [failure,]" Egyptian aviation minister Sherif Fathi told reporters Thursday.
The Egyptian military released footage Thursday evening of the search for MS804 after it went missing 174 miles off the coast of Egypt, but it remains a mystery about what, if anything, officials have spotted along the search route.
Initially, EgyptAir released a statement saying Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation had received word from Greek authorities that "floating material" and life jackets likely to be from the plane had been spotted in the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Karpathos, but EgyptAir vice president Ahmed Adel later retracted that statement, telling CNN the material spotted was not from MS804.
But the Egyptian military says no distress call was received from the pilot.
Grieving relatives had no choice but to endure the inaccuracies made by authorities as dozens gathered at Cairo International Airport
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