The missing EgyptAir flight MS804 reportedly crashed over Mediterranean sea, Greek aviation officials revealed on Thursday.

The Airbus 320 plane was carrying 56 passengers and ten crews from Paris to Cairo. The passengers on board included 30 Egyptian, 15 French nationals, two Iraqis and one person each from Canada, Britain, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Sudan, Algeria, Chad, and Portugal.

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"At around 0029 GMT (3:29 am) when it was in Egyptian airspace, the plane disappeared from Greek radars... it crashed around 130 nautical miles off the island of Karpathos," a Greece aviation source told AFP news agency.

The ill-fated plane disappeared from the radar at 02:45 local time on early Thursday morning. The Egyptian military received an emergency signal about the incident around 4:30 am, almost two hours after its disappearance.

EgyptAir has, however, denied media reports about the crash. "EGYPTAIR denies all misleading information published by news websites and social media channels regarding the reasons for the disappearance of EGYPTAIR flight MS804 and the company confirms that the reason of disappearance hasn't been yet confirmed," EgyptAir said on its official twitter account.

A search operation is underway, and a crisis management centre has been created at France's international Charles De Gaulle airport. EgyptAir's hotline numbers for passengers' relatives: 0800 7777 0000 ( for Egyptian landline phone users ) and +202 259 89320 ( for mobile users either in Egypt or abroad).

An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.

— EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) May 19, 2016

Press Release No 7 EGYPTAIR denies all misleading information published by news websites and social media channels regarding the reasons — EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) May 19, 2016

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