Initial attempts to download information from the flight data and voice recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have been unsuccessful, a US official said.

Investigators have started analysing the cockpit voice recorder from an EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea last month, killing all 66 people on board.

Egypt says it has spotted the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board.

An EgyptAir plane that made an emergency landing in Uzbekistan following a bomb threat resumed its flight and has landed in Beijing, Egyptian officials said.

A French company has confirmed that its special undersea search ship has detected signals from one of the black box flight recorders on the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.

A French company has confirmed that its special undersea search ship has detected signals from one of the black box flight recorders on the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.

A French ship has picked up signals under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board, Egyptian officials say.

EgyptAir will contract two foreign firms, one French and one Italian, to help search for the black boxes of its plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, the airline’s chairman said.

Human remains retrieved from the crash site of the EgyptAir Flight 804 suggest there was an explosion on board that may have brought down the aircraft, a senior Egyptian forensic official has said.

The doomed EgyptAir Flight 804 did not swerve or lose altitude before it disappeared off radar, the head of Egypt's state-run provider of air navigation services has said.

An EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean did not swerve and change direction before disappearing.

A submarine from the Egyptian oil ministry is heading to the site of the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804. It will join the search for the cockpit voice-and-flight data recorders, or black boxes, the country’s president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, said.

Latest:Smoke was detected in multiple places in EgyptAir Flight 804 before it crashed in the Mediterranean, the French air accident investigation agency said.

Shares in Thomas Cook plunged 19% yesterday as it said its summer bookings fell as security concerns meant more holidaymakers opted for breaks in Spain over Turkey, Tunisia, and Egypt, outstripping its efforts to adjust flights.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is weighing in on the crash of the EgyptAir flight that had been travelling from Paris to Cairo, calling it "yet another terrorist attack".

Bosses at Egyptair have confirmed wreckage found in the Mediterranean Sea was not from the missing jet.

The British passenger who posed for a photo with his alleged captor on the hijacked Egyptian plane said it has to be “the best selfie ever”.

A Cyprus court has ordered the detention for eight days of an Egyptian man who admitted hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to the island by threatening to blow it up with a fake explosives belt.

An Italian passenger has been speaking about how Europeans aboard the recently hijacked EgyptAir flight feared for their lives.

By now, you might have seen the photo doing the rounds of the British man who posed for a photo with the EgyptAir hijacker.

An Egyptian who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and forced it to land in Cyprus was taken into custody after releasing all passengers and crew unharmed following an hours-long stand off.

An alleged hijacker who forced an Egyptian plane to divert to Cyprus and took passengers and crew hostage was wearing a fake suicide vest, officials have confirmed.

The EgyptAir plane hostage situation at Larnaca airport in Cyprus has ended after the hijacker was arrested, the Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.