A video going viral on social media may show EgyptAir Flight MS804 on fire as it careened through the night air near Greece early this morning.
Residents of Greek island claim they saw ball of fire in the sky around the time #MS804 disappeared. @ChrisReason7 https://t.co/FDlNhF2KVz
— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) May 19, 2016
The flight carrying 66 people disappeared over the Mediterranean around 2:00 A.M. on Thursday. It had taken off from Paris a few hours before and was scheduled to land in Cairo.
The president of France confirmed that the flight crashed, but did not say what the cause might be.
As reports of #Greek island residents seeing "ball of fire in the sky" come out, French PM says 'no theory can be ruled out' #MS804.
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 19, 2016
Residents of Greece said they saw a "ball of fire" in the sky around the time that the plane disappeared, according to multiple reports.
The video, which claims to have been filmed around the time of the plane's disappearance, was broadcast in the Greek media--as well as on YouTube and Twitter--on Thursday morning. But the video is unverified and its source is not known.
--HS
