Cairo/ Paris: A translation mistake of EgyptAir's press release about finding wreckage of the missing flight MS804 has caused misunderstanding.
An EgyptAir source said the Arabic version of a press statement on the possibility of finding parts of the missing airplane was mistakenly translated into English by EgyptAir's official Facebook page, which caused confusion.
The source further explained that EgyptAir has never confirmed the finding of any wreckage. "In the Arabic version, we only spoke about the possibility that the objects found might belong to the airplane," it said.
Earlier on Thursday, EgyptAir said the Egyptian Foreign Ministry had confirmed to the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry that wreckages of the missing airplane were found near the Greek Island of Karpathos.
Those reports were shortly denied by Greek officials who said the objects they found during the ongoing search operations do not belong to the Egyptian aircraft.
EgyptAir has earlier confirmed that the missing plane, an Airbus A320, disappeared from radar screens en route from Paris to Cairo at 2:45 a.m. Cairo local time on Thursday. The flight had 66 people aboard, including 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis and nine others each from Algeria, Belgium, Portugal, Britain, Canada, Chad, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
France to send experts to find causes of EgyptAir flight disappearance
France's air accident investigation agency BEA said that it is sending three experts to help establish the causes of EgyptAir plane's disappearance. BEA said its three members would be accompanied with a technical consultant from Airbus, the manufacturer of the aircraft.
The group of experts would help the Egyptian authorities make underwater searches to locate the plane and flight recorders.
French President Francois Hollande reiterated the close cooperation with Egyptian officials to determine the cause.
