EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo believed to have crashed into the Mediterranean with 66 on board

EgyptAir flight MS804 heading from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board is believed to have crashed in the Mediterranean Sea after disappearing from radar.

• EgyptAir flight Flight MS804 left Paris at 10.09pm (BST) on Wednesday May 18,2016
• The Airbus A320 vanished over the Mediterranean Sea at 1.45am (BST)
• Airline said contact was lost with the plane 10 miles into Egyptian air space
• Was flying at 37,000ft, and disappeared 20 minutes before it was set to land

The Airbus A320 left the French capital's Charles De Gaulle Airport at 10.09pm BST on Wednesday then went missing three hours and 40 minutes into its journey

The plane vanished 10 miles into Egyptian airspace around 20 minutes before it was due to land.

A captain on board a merchant ship in the Mediterranean reported seeing a 'flame in the sky'.  

It was supposed touch down at 2.15am BST. There were 56 passengers, including two babies and a child and 10 crew on the flight.

The breakdown of the nationalities on board were: 30 Egyptians, 15 French, one British, one Belgian, one Iraqi, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi Arabian, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and one Canadian.