CAIRO: Egypt’s Civil Aviation ministry says in a statement that “floating material,” including life jackets and plastic items have been found in the sea off the Greek island of Karpathos, close to the suspected site of the EgyptAir plane crash.
The ministry says that it is coordinating with Greek counterparts to examine what they have found and to determine whether the items could be part of the debris from the plane that crashed before dawn on Thursday.
Procter & Gamble Co. says one of its employees was aboard the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
The consumer products maker identified him as Ahmed Helal, manager of its plant in Amiens, France. He had held a variety of manager positions since joining P&G in his native Egypt in 2000. His LinkedIn profile says he earned a mechanical engineering degree from The American University in Cairo in 1999.
P&G spokesman Damon Jones says “we are in touch with the employee’s family and are offering them our full support during this difficult time.”
The Cincinnati-based company makes products such as Tide detergent and Pampers diapers.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expressing his “condolences to Egypt and to all other countries” affected by the disappearance of EgyptAir 804 over the Mediterranean.
Speaking Thursday at NATO headquarters outside of Brussels, Kerry says “the United States is providing assistance in the search effort and relevant authorities are doing everything they can to try to determine what the facts are of what happened.”
Egyptian officials say EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo crashed early Thursday into the sea with 66 people on board. Kerry refused to speculate on the cause of the crash and insisted he and other authorities did not know it yet.
He says “but we certainly extend our condolences to each and every country that has lost people and particularly to Egypt.”
Egyptian airport officials have identified two more victims from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean.
They say that the sister-in-law of Hisham el-Maqawad, the deputy to the Egyptian ambassador in Paris, and Sahar al-Khawaga, a Saudi woman who works at the Saudi Embassy in Cairo, are among the victims of Thursday’s plane crash.
They say that al-Khawaga, who has worked at the diplomatic mission in the Egyptian capital for 13 years, was in Paris to follow up on her daughter’s medical treatment there.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under regulations. AP
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