http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/middleeast/egyptair-flight-disappears/index.html

CNN talking terrorism but no concrete information

5/18/2016 11:36:59 PM

trump just won

5/18/2016 11:51:17 PM

I think we need a drawing to confirm Earl

5/19/2016 12:29:36 AM

That's a really small number of passengers for such a large plane... i guess not many people going to Egypt these days...

5/19/2016 2:53:41 AM

Now saying 66 people, so even lower.

But the flight did depart later than 11pm local time and was scheduled to arrive after 3am, so it makes some sense that it wasn't a packed flight.

10 miles into Egyptian airspace. No distress calls or any public indications of sensitive cargo or passengers. Who knows, at this point.

[Edited on May 19, 2016 at 3:04 AM. Reason : .]

5/19/2016 3:01:48 AM

Twitter is abuzz with this story. Looks like a good possibility of terrorism, but apparently a distress signal went out (according to BBC) so maybe mechanical.

Edit: now I'm seeing no distress signal. So this must have been VERY sudden.

Whatever the cause it seems unlikely that it didn't go down.

[Edited on May 19, 2016 at 6:05 AM. Reason : Fhjj]

[Edited on May 19, 2016 at 6:17 AM. Reason : Dhdhdjdj]

5/19/2016 6:02:16 AM

flew into a black hole like that Malaysia airliner perhaps

5/19/2016 6:53:30 AM

Donald Trump already jumping to the terrorist conclusion on Twitter. This is going to be a 48 hour shitstorm at minimum.

If it was terrorism he might well win the election.

5/19/2016 8:05:44 AM

I'm shocked the plane was only half full. I'm stuck in the middle seat 70 percent of the time from atl to west coast

5/19/2016 8:19:35 AM

Quote :

"• Greek controllers tried to reach the Airbus A320 when it crossed through Greek airspace but got no response. • When the plane reached Cairo airspace, it swerved sharply then plunged from 37,000 feet into the Mediterranean, Greece says. • A distress signal was detected in the vicinity where the flight disappeared from radar 2 hours later, but it could have come from another vessel. • The cause behind the disappearance is more likely terrorism than a technical issue, Egypt's civil aviation minister says."

5/19/2016 12:29:19 PM

Seems like it was a bomb, probably planted before take off by an airport employee in France. I'm guessing baggage handler.

That seems to be the leading theory right now. Lots to be figured out still, but it doesn't look good.

5/19/2016 3:26:58 PM

You'd think someone would have taken credit for it by now.

5/19/2016 3:37:07 PM

Yeah, that's the one thing I've been surprised by too and the thing that does give me some slim hope that this wasn't a terror attack. Usually your have people taking credit for stuff like this even when they didn't do it.

There's also the possibility that it may have been a lone person operating on their own as opposed to an organized ISIS cell or something. Hell, it could also be that it was done by a far right French nationalist group that wants this blamed on Muslims.

[Edited on May 19, 2016 at 3:42 PM. Reason : Typing on a phone is hard. ]

5/19/2016 3:41:41 PM

I heard on the radio there were a series of wild turns before it went down. That makes me think of an attempted hijacking.

5/19/2016 3:42:26 PM

Seems unlikely given how fast it plummeted and cockpit security, plus 3 "security personnel" were on board. I'm guessing explosion near the tail section or wing causing wild turn, overcorrection, then fast drop in altitude.

5/19/2016 3:45:47 PM

very interesting that OEP hasn't posted in this thread yet

5/19/2016 4:25:41 PM

"the plane we found was not that plane"

What the hell was it then? MH370? Charles Widmore? What?

5/19/2016 5:01:04 PM

This is just all so sad

5/19/2016 5:21:03 PM

Quote :

"Donald Trump already jumping to the terrorist conclusion on Twitter. This is going to be a 48 hour shitstorm at minimum. If it was terrorism he might well win the election. "

Maybe I'm out of the loop but what does terrorism on an Egyptian airline have to do with Trump winning?

Is he going to claim he would have stopped this if he was president? I guess it's no less realistic than the other crazy shit he claims he will do.

[Edited on May 19, 2016 at 5:23 PM. Reason : ]

5/19/2016 5:22:28 PM

I think the implication was a terrorist attack "this close" to the election will favor the Republican candidate since they generally have military stuff and national security as a higher priority than their Democratic counterpart.

5/19/2016 5:24:44 PM

As more time passes, I'm starting to believe the plane never crashed

what we know
this incident occurred during handoff from greece to egypt
the plane rapidly descended before vanishing
no witnesses of explosion
no wreckage
one of the busiest seas in the world


Based on all of that, I'm ready to present the theory that the plane was hijacked and flown to libya under the radar.

5/19/2016 6:16:25 PM

^ only 60 people on board, they could all have been working together

5/19/2016 6:48:28 PM

Quote :

"Maybe I'm out of the loop but what does terrorism on an Egyptian airline have to do with Trump winning? Is he going to claim he would have stopped this if he was president? I guess it's no less realistic than the other crazy shit he claims he will do."

Trump has gain a lot of support from the right for claiming he wants to lock the borders. The left tends to act a little more inclusive and doesn't seem as concerned about border security, or banning travel to the USA from Islamic terrorist hotbeds.

5/19/2016 7:24:52 PM

Quote :

"Of the 56 passengers, 30 were Egyptian, the airline said. Fifteen passengers were French, two were Iraqis, and one each was a citizen of the U.K., Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria, and Canada, according to the airline. But Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion said two Canadian citizens were among the passengers on the flight."

5/20/2016 12:55:01 AM