Hunt continues for the wreckage of doomed EgyptAir flight

Planes and ships resumed the search Friday for the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 after the plane turned wildly and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people aboard on Thursday.

The Airbus A320, which took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris bound for Cairo International Airport, had 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board when it vanished from radar around 2:45 a.m. Cairo time. The plane went down about 175 miles from Egypt's coastline after making a sudden 90-degree turn to the left and then doing a full, 360-degree spin to the right, according to Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos.

A relative of a passenger flying aboard an EgyptAir plane that vanished 

There were reports Thursday that debris from the flight had been recovered near the Greek island of Karpathos, but Greek officials later announced that "an assessment of the finds showed that they do not belong to an aircraft. 

Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi said the possibility of a terror attack as the cause of the crash of flight MS804 is "higher than that of a technical error,” Egypt's state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported.

Source: USA today