Cairo: The first photographs have emerged of debris of EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean on its way to Cairo from Paris, killing all 66 people on board.
The Egyptian military posted the photos Saturday on its spokesman's Facebook page. They appear to show the heavily-damaged remains of plane seats, life jackets - one of which is seemingly undamaged - and a scrap of cloth that looks to be part of a baby's blanket or sleeping bag.
The Egyptian military posted the photos Saturday on its spokesman's Facebook page
The Egyptian military announced Friday that it had found debris in the eastern Mediterranean, around 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Alexandria.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Saturday that no theory on the cause of the EgyptAir crash has been ruled out, after revelations of smoke in the cabin minutes before the disaster.
"At this time, all theories are being examined and none is favoured," he told a news conference after meeting with relatives of passengers who were aboard the doomed A320 which left Paris early Thursday for Cairo.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Saturday that no theory on the cause of the EgyptAir crash has been ruled out.
"The reports circulating here and there, which by the way are sometimes contradictory, give rise too often to nearly definitive conclusions," Ayrault said, warning of the "painful tension" caused to the families of the victims.
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"Finding the plane is of course the priority, along with finding the black boxes to analyse them, which will allow us to answer legitimate questions," he said, referring to the voice and flight data recorders.
France's "dual goal" is to offer "solidarity with the families but also transparency on the circumstances of this plane's disappearance," said the foreign minister, who was joined by Egypt's ambassador to France at the meeting with the family members.
The passengers included 30 Egyptians, 15 French citizens, two Iraqis, two Canadians, and citizens from Algeria, Belgium, Britain, Chad, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. They included a boy and two babies.
