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French investigators in Egypt to aid crash probe

CAIRO,(APP/AFP): Investigators from France’s air accident
authority and Airbus have arrived in Egypt to help probe the mysterious crash of an EgyptAir plane in the Mediterranean, the French embassy said Friday.
Three BEA civil aviation experts and an Airbus technical adviser
arrived in Cairo overnight, while search and rescue teams hunted for signs of wreckage, embassy spokeswoman Ines Ben Kraiem told AFP.
The Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo swerved suddenly before
plunging and disappearing from radar screens early Thursday with 66 people on board, including 30 Egyptian and 15 French passengers.