And “U.S. government officials are operating on an initial theory that the plane was taken down by a bomb.”
“EgyptAir Flight 804: Wreckage found, airline official says,” by Michael Pearson, Faith Karimi and Ian Lee, CNN, May 19, 2016:
Cairo (CNN)Searchers scouring the heavily traveled waters of the Mediterranean Sea for EgyptAir Flight 804 on Thursday have found the plane’s wreckage, airline Vice Chairman Ahmed Adel told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
The debris was about 150 nautical miles north of the Egyptian coast, Adel said. He did not elaborate on the location or condition of the wreckage but said the search and rescue operation was “turning into a search and recovery” mission.
Earlier, a spokesman for Greece’s Hellenic National Defense General Staff had said crew aboard an Egyptian search aircraft had spotted two floating objects 210 nautical miles southeast of Crete. It’s unclear whether those objects are part of the wreckage described by Adel.
The Airbus A320 carrying 66 passengers and crew disappeared early Thursday over the Mediterranean Sea as it flew from Paris to Cairo.
Speculation has centered on the possibility of a terrorist attack.
“Planes today just don’t fall out of the sky,” CNN aviation analyst Miles O’Brien said.
Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sharif Fathi said technical failures and terror are both possible explanations.
“But if you analyze this situation properly, the possibility of having a different action aboard, of having a terror attack, is higher than having a technical problem,” Fathi said….
— Checks of the passenger manifest have so far resulted in no hits on terror watch lists, officials with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
— U.S. government officials are operating on an initial theory that the plane was taken down by a bomb, two U.S. officials told CNN on Thursday. Officials said the theory could change, with one senior administration official cautioning it is not yet supported by a “smoking gun.”…

Angemon says
It’s easy to see when you’re not dealing with the Obama administration…
JMB says
Hopefully when the wreckage and flight recorders are recovered we will get some real answers to the cause of this tragedy, BUT
1, We are looking at a carrier that already has a grim safety record,
2, Technical failure, (1) Are 3rd World maintenance standards really satisfactory, I imagine shortcuts, budget cuts and incompetence would be normal. What good maintenance engineers they do have in their system can get good well paid jobs in Canada etc.
3, Technical failure (2) We have seen on many occasions how USA or Australian pilots have prevented disaster by calmly “following procedures” following a major system failure. Does the same thing happen in a 3rd world airline?
4, What was that plane doing flying at 37,000 feet?
5, Airport security; Even at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, significant numbers of workers including those in security are North African Muslims, this effectively means NO real security.
Let us hope that any damming findings following an investigation of this crash are not pushed aside in the interests of PC or Muslim sensitivities.
Mockingjay says
Latest news: “There were NO people on board that were on any terrorlist.”
What a relief.
And no one seems to even REMOTELY consider the 5th point of your comment, JMB, which to me is actually the most plausible scenario – that an explosive devise was smuggled on board by some bagage handler or someone of the other ground personnel.
Where was it in France, I think Lyon, where arabic texts were discovered on a plane, just a few months ago (mentioned in an article here on JW)?
Of course, you can’t lay off any muslim working at any airport. Then you’re a racist, or even worse, an …. – I really don’t even wanna write this word anymore.
Meanwhile…, the islamists are laughing.
Mockingjay says
Here’s the article I meant:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/57-paris-airport-workers-on-terror-watch-list-allahu-akbar-scrawled-on-fuel-tank
JMB says
Hello MJ,
I feel the cause of this crash will be found to be a combination of my points #2 & #3.
A dreadful thing to happen.
It should also be noted that in aviation circles the A320 is known as the “scarebus”, fantastic high tech aircraft when all is going well, otherwise it takes a lot of skill to correct any unexpected emergency situation.
JMB
Mockingjay says
I hope you’re right, JMB.
Zeke Zick says
“Remember this class, no matter what, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM!”(sarcasm)
Nigel GFF says
“Searchers scouring the heavily traveled waters of the Mediterranean Sea”.
1) God help us – what if it is an islamic terrorist who sailed these very waters as a ‘refugee’.
2) God help us – what did the debris (bodies too) fall on?
… the mind boggles at all the possibilities.
No confirmation of cause yet, all conjecture, but the ramifications ……dear O dear.
Hope says
More dead people, blown to bits. Our leaders continue to pretend that no one particular group of people is repeatedly involved in committing acts of terror. They refuse to name the problem. Therefore, muslims can continue to work at airports in jobs that give them access to planes, luggage, you name it. Continuing to assume that only a tiny fraction of the muslim population is in favor of terrorist acts is a suicidal policy. Barack Obama has said that “99.9% of muslims are peaceful.” This is an outright lie and it is BS that is putting us in danger.
Muslims MUST be profiled. Who gives a rat’s a$$ if they don’t like it?Mosques must be put under surveillance. The alternative, more innocent people dead, is not acceptable.
jimmi says
It is impossible to monitor or profile a 1% of the population in any country. This require another approach.
Hope says
How is it impossible? Please explain.
Bob says
Even better, destroy mosques altogether, as threats to national safety- if not international safety! (I’m attempting to destroy islam by dangerously increasing their corporate blood pressure!)
linnte says
Governments KNOW what is happening! Governments CONDONE this stuff. Because not taking every action possible to prevent this is approval.
Guest says
All we need to do is wait. ISIS will probably say that was their doing tomorrow.
Dave De La Rond says
What’s worse than having a Muslim Brotherhood cleaning crew placing a Bomb on board is CNN+BBC still calling them Militans not Muslim Terrorists .
Sergio says
Egypt is full of radicals. Their airports have obviously been compromised.
Lizzy says
The investigation is being led by the Egyptian navy. The conclusion will be what is thought to be in the best interests of Egypt.
Baucent says
I wonder if in time we will learn that a bomb was loaded onto the aircraft in France by a ISIS supporter who also happened to work as a baggage handler. It has happened before with the Russian plane in the Sinai.
Baucent says
Also it’s interesting that a video from ISIS calling for attacks on France has recently been released. In it were images of an Air France aircraft. This imagery could in fact be a code message to operatives in France to begin an operation. Much the same as a radio broadcast phrase or word has sent a message to field agents in past wars.
linnte says
That’s pretty astute! I wonder if someone went back to the IS videos and checked to see terrorist attempts around the broadcast of those, what would they find? Secret messages! Surely National security agents do this?
Carolyne says
Could this bomb have been placed on the Egyptair plane by those sweet, cuddly pals of Obama? Nooooo.
WorkingClassPost says
We are almost there, almost at the stage where even the msm will have to state the obvious, or their own audience will desert them.
The presumption now, with incidents like this, must be terrorism first, so that we can act quickly to ensure that it’s not part of a multi-front assault.
This is not rashness nor paranoia, it is purely caution and care for the population at large.
If it upsets the PC, that’s fine.
My guess is that life will go on much the same and those in denial will remain there, it’s just one less hoop for us to jump through, before they accept reality.
If one of these events turns out to be other, then great, but that should not force us to be imprudent and put even more lives at risk than are already.