EgyptAir update: Terrorism more likely than technical failure

Egypt’s aviation minister said the missing EgyptAir jet was more likely to have been the victim of a terror attack than a technical fault Sherif Fathi said the control tower lost contact with the Airbus A320 early Thursday morning The jet, carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo, disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean sea A Greek frigate searching for the aircraft discovered two large plastic floating objects in a sea area 230 miles south of the island of Crete Thursday afternoon