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The pilot of an EgyptAir flight that vanished over the eastern Mediterranean early Thursday with 66 people on board, had "not mentioned a problem" in his final contact, the Greek civil aviation said.
The Greek defence minister has said an EgyptAir plane“suddenly” started veering to the right and left just before it disappeared from radar.
Panos Kammenos told a news conference flight MS804 had been at cruising altitude when it started rapidly losing altitude over the Mediterranean Sea.
It made “sudden swerves” first to the left, and then in a full circle in the opposite direction immediately after it entered Egyptian airspace, he said.
“It turned 90 degrees left and then a 360 degree turn toward the right, dropping from 38,000 to 15,000 feet and then it was lost at about 10,000 feet,” Kammenos added.
"The flight controllers contacted the pilot (with the plane) at a height of 37,000 feet (near Athens)... he did not mention a problem," civil aviation chief Constantinos Litzerakos told Antenna TV.
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Litzerakos said the controllers had last spoken to the pilot "around 0005 GMT", some 25 minutes before the plane disappeared from Greek radar.
A civil aviation statement said the pilot "was in a good mood and gave thanks in Greek when authorised to exit the Athens flight information region.
"We tracked the entire process from the plane's entry (into Greek airspace) to its exit, it does not appear to deviate at all from the coordinates we gave," Litzerakos said.
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The plane vanished from radar screens at 0029 GMT after crossing into the Cairo flight information region, the Greek civil aviation statement said, referring to Egyptian air space.
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