Officials in the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation on Thursday confirmed that the missing Egyptair Flight 804 crashed in the Mediterranean Sea.
The officials said in Cairo that initial findings showed that that the Airbus A320 has not landed at any nearby airports.
The Egyptair said the Egyptian military search teams received a distress call from the emergency mechanisms of the missing aircraft at 4:26 am (0226 GMT) almost two hours after it disappeared from radar.
According to the airline, the flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar at 2:30 am local time (0030 GMT), some 45 minutes before it was expected at Cairo airport.
It said 30 Egyptians and 15 French nationals were among the passengers on the plane before it disappeared from radar.
It said the other passengers include two Iraqis, and one person each from Algeria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Chad, Kuwait, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. (dpa/NAN)