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Egyptian air and naval forces have spotted debris from EgyptAir flight 804 that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66 passengers and crew who were en route from Paris to Cairo, the Egyptian army and Greek defense minister said Friday. (May 20) AP
Relatives and friends of Salah Abu Laban, Sahar Qouidar, Ghassan Abu Laban and Reem al-Sebaei, all victims of EgyptAir flight 804, grieves following prayers for the dead, at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday.(Photo: Amr Nabil, AP)
French retired engineer Pierre Heslouin and his son, Quentin, learned to cope with the death last year of Edith<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— the father's wife and son's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>mother<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— by traveling together when they could.
The father-and-son companionship<span style="color: Red;">*</span>may have cost them their lives Thursday when the EgyptAir flight they were on from Paris to Cairo disappeared over the Mediterranean with both Heslouins aboard along with 64 others.
Heslouin, 75, and the father of five, was from Nogent-sur-Marne, east of Paris, and Quentin, 41, lived and worked in London, according to the La Parisien<span style="color: Red;">*</span>newspaper.
Details continued to emerge Friday about the 66 people aboard the aircraft as Egyptian planes and naval vessels found pieces of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wreckage. Relatives and families in Egypt and France, where most of the 56 passengers were from, continued to wait anxiously<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for word of what happened to the flight that suddenly disappeared from radar screens during pre-dawn hours.
EgyptAir officials said there were 30 Egyptians and 15 French citizens on the aircraft, along with two Iraqis and one person from each of nine countries: Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria, Canada, Great Britain, Belgium, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The Canadian government said two of its citizens were aboard. Among the passengers were two infants and a child. The plane had a crew of 10.
USA TODAY
Officials: Luggage, body parts from EgyptAir flight found
A citizen of Chad who was a passenger on Flight 804,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Seitchi Mahamat, was a second-year cadet at the elite engineering and military academy, Saint-Cyr Coetquidan, on the outskirts of Paris, according to the Wall Street Journal. He was on his way home to mourn the death of his mother.
The Toronto Star<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reported that a Canadian mother of three working and living in Cairo, Marwa Hamdy, was on the plane.
USA TODAY
EgyptAir plane disappearance: What we know
CNN, quoting an official close to the investigation and a security source, identified the pilot of the aircraft as Mohamed Said Shoukair, who had<span style="color: Red;">*</span>more than 6,200 hours of flying experience. Shoukair had<span style="color: Red;">*</span>been a pilot with EgyptAir since 2004 and lived<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Cairo, according to his Facebook page.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>CNN identified the first officer as Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed Assem and the head flight attendant as Mirvat Zaharia Zaki Mohamed.
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Others who have been reported on the flight include:
— Egyptian-born Ahmed Helal, a married father of two and manager of Proctor & Gamble's Amiens France manufacturing plant,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>where such products as Mr. Clean, Febreze and Dash were shipped throughout Europe.
— Welshman Richard Osman, 40, a mining company executive who was the father of two, according to the BBC.
— Abdelrahman El Suhail, identified by the Wall Street Journal as an economics professor from Kuwait,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who had just left his two disabled children in Paris for medical treatment and was heading to a conference in Cairo.
— Hisham el-Maqawad, a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sister-in-law of the deputy to the Egyptian ambassador in Paris.
— Sahar al-Khawaga, a Saudi woman who worked at the Saudi Embassy in Cairo, according to ABC News.
— Joao David e Silva, 62, the father of four, who specialized in emerging markets and worked for the Portuguese construction company, Mota-Engil, according to CNN.
Contributing: Jennifer Collins
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