EgyptAir confirms missing plane crashed

An EgyptAir flight headed to Cairo from Paris late Wedesday which
was reported as missing from radar has been confirmed to have
crashed into the Mediterranean Sea halfway between Egypt and
Greece, the airline reported on Twitter. Aboard were 56 passengers
-- including one child and two babies -- from more than a dozen
nations and 10 crew members, it said.

The airline confirmed that the pilot made a distress call at 2:24am
local time before the plane vanished. A signal from a beacon was
spotted and is currently been sought.