There were 66 of them on board. Middle Easterners, Europeans and Canadians. Adults and children.
All of whom, barring a miracle, are now dead.
The search and rescue mission for the missing EgyptAir Flight 804 has turned into a search and recovery one, the airline said. Officials aren’t optimistic they will find anyone alive.
Until it has informed all family members, EgyptAir says it won’t release the names of those who were on the plane.
Here’s what we know so far of the passengers and crew who were aboard the Airbus when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on its way from Paris to Cairo. They included 30 Egyptians, 15 French and two Canadians, as well as people from Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Chad, Iraq, Kuwait, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
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The crew
Ten people comprised the crew.
Mohamed Said Shoukair
Shoukair piloted missing EgyptAir Flight 804, according to an official close to the investigation and a security source. His Facebook page says he has been with EgyptAir since 2004 and lives in Cairo.
Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed Assem
Assem is the first officer on EgyptAir Flight 804, according to an official close to the investigation and a security source. He lives in Cairo. By Thursday evening his Facebook account had been turned into a memorial page and some of his friends had changed their profile picture to images of him.
Mirvat Zaharia Zaki Mohamed
Mohamed is the purser, or head flight attendant of EgyptAir Flight 804, according to an official close to the investigation and a security source.
The passengers
The 56 passengers included two infants and a child.
Abdulmohsen Al-Muteiri
State-run Kuwait New Agency reported that Kuwaiti citizen Abdulmohsen Al-Muteiri was one of the passengers on EgyptAir flight 804. The Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs confirmed the information with the news agency.
Ahmed Helal
Helal is a director of a Procter & Gamble production facility in Amiens, France. He was on a personal trip, according to the American consumer goods company.
“This is a very difficult moment for all P&G people, especially for employees of Amiens’ site,” the company said.
Joao David e Silva
Silva specializes in emerging markets and worked for the Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil. The 62-year-old married father of four is based in Johannesburg because of his job although his family lives in Lisbon, a Portuguese government source said. Without revealing his name, the company confirmed one of its employees was on the flight.
The crew members included three security personnel, two cockpit crew and five cabin crew, the airline said.
