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EgyptAir plane crashed off Greek island of Karpathos in Egyptian airspace, says Greek civil aviation source

EgyptAir plane crashed off Greek island of Karpathos in Egyptian airspace, says Greek civil aviation source

An EgyptAir flight which disappeared from radar screens en route from Paris to Cairo early Thursday, crashed into the sea off the southern Greek island of Karpathos while in Egyptian airspace, a Greece aviation source told AFP.

“At around 0029 GMT (3:29 am) when it was in Egyptian airspace, the plane disappeared from Greek radars… it crashed around 130 nautical miles off the island of Karpathos,” the source told AFP.

[AFP]

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