EgyptAir staff perform absentee funeral prayer for doomed plane victims

Chairman of EgyptAir Airlines Hisham el Nahhas, leaders at the company, pilots, and flight attendants on Friday performed an absentee funeral prayer for victims of EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean early Thursday.

The funeral was held at Abu Bakr al Siddiq Mosque, whose preacher voiced condolences to families of the victims.

Fifty-six passengers, including 30 Egyptians, 15 French and 11 of other nationalities, along with 10 crew members, were on board the Airbus A320.

Radar lost contact with the flight at 2:45 Cairo local time while it was at an altitude of 37,000 feet.

The flight took off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on Wednesday 23:09 Paris local time then disappeared from radar after entering the Egyptian airspace.

Earlier in the day, the Egyptian Armed Forces announced that they had found some parts of the plane.

In a statement, the Armed Forces said that personal belongings of passengers and parts of the plane's wreckage had been found some 290 kilometers north of Alexandria city.

Source: MENA