The flight left Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in France for Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday evening. The plane lost contact with radar 10 miles after entering Egyptian air space. It has 56 passengers and 10 crew on board.

The Egyptian navy said that it had found the personal belongings of passengers and other debris floating in the Mediterranean, confirmation that the EgyptAir jet had plunged into the sea.

The search team is now looking for the plane's black box in the crash area, which is roughly 180 miles north of Alexandria, a coastal city in Egypt.

• Flight MS804 left Charles De Gaulle Airport at 11:09pm Paris time (5:09am SGT).
• It was 10 miles into Egyptian airspace when it disappeared at around 2:30am Egypt time (8:30am SGT).
• Greek authorities have said it then fell 22,000 feet and "swerved sharply" in Egyptian airspace. "The plane carried out a 90-degree turn to the left and a 360-degree turn to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet," defence minister Panos Kammenos said. 
• The Airbus A320 was built in 2003 and was on its fifth journey of the day. It had clocked 48,000 flight hours. The captain has 6,275 flying hours, including 2,101 on the A320, EgyptAir said. The co-pilot has 2,766. 

The defense minister of Greece, which has also been scouring the Mediterranean, said Egyptian authorities had found a body part, luggage and a seat in the sea just south of where the signal from the plane was lost.

Although suspicion pointed to Islamist militants who blew up another airliner over Egypt just seven months ago, no group had claimed responsibility more than 24 hours after the disappearance of flight MS804, an Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo.

Three French investigators and a technical expert from Airbus arrived in Cairo early on Friday to help investigate the fate of the missing plane, airport sources said.

"The presidency with utmost sadness and regret mourns the victims on aboard the EgyptAir flight who were killed after the plane crashed in the Mediterranean on its way back to Cairo from Paris."   -President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Egypt's aviation minister said a terrorist attack was more likely than a technical failure.

The nationalities of the passengers are as follows: 15 French, 30 Egyptians, 1 British, 1 Belgium, 2 Iraqis, 1 Kuwaiti, 1 Saudi, 1 Sudanese, 1 Chadian, 1 Portuguese, 1 Algerian and 1 Canadian. The airline said two babies and one child were on board.