"The presidency with utmost sadness and regret mourns the victims aboard the EgyptAir flight who were killed after the plane crashed in the Mediterranean on its way back to Cairo from Paris," Sisi's office said in a statement.
The search intensified on Friday, a day after Egypt's aviation minister said while it was too soon to say why the Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo had vanished from radar screens, a "terrorist" attack would be a more likely scenario than a technical failure."The presidency with utmost sadness and regret mourns the victims aboard the EgyptAir flight who were killed after the plane crashed in the Mediterranean on its way back to Cairo from Paris," Sisi's office said in a statement.
The search intensified on Friday, a day after Egypt's aviation minister said while it was too soon to say why the Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo had vanished from radar screens, a "terrorist" attack would be a more likely scenario than a technical failure.
The tragedy raised fears of a repeat of the bombing of a Russian passenger jet by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group over Egypt last October that killed 224 people.
The plane disappeared between the Greek islands and the Egyptian coast without a distress signal from its crew.
Kammenos said the aircraft swerved sharply twice in Egyptian air space before plunging 6,700 metres.
Aviation analyst Tobias Rueckerl told Al Jazeera it was likely the searchers would find the black box quickly after locating the crash site, which could shed more light on what happened to the ill-fated aircraft.
"Basically we will have all the details up to the fatal event," Rueckerl said. "If anything happened in the cockpit, it is likely they will hear it on the voice recorder. We don't know the cause of the crash right now."
Both Egypt and Greece d"The presidency with utmost sadness and regret mourns the victims aboard the EgyptAir flight who were killed after the plane crashed in the Mediterranean on its way back to Cairo from Paris," Sisi's office said in a statement.
The search intensified on Friday, a day after Egypt's aviation minister said while it was too soon to say why the Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo had vanished from radar screens, a "terrorist" attack would be a more likely scenario than a technical failure.
The tragedy raised fears of a repeat of the bombing of a Russian passenger jet by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group over Egypt last October that killed 224 people.
The plane disappeared between the Greek islands and the Egyptian coast without a distress signal from its crew.
Kammenos said the aircraft swerved sharply twice in Egyptian air space before plunging 6,700 metres.
Aviation analyst Tobias Rueckerl told Al Jazeera it was likely the searchers would find the black box quickly after locating the crash site, which could shed more light on what happened to the ill-fated aircraft.
"Basically we will have all the details up to the fatal event," Rueckerl said. "If anything happened in the cockpit, it is likely they will hear it on the voice recorder. We don't know the cause of the crash right now.
Both Egypt and Greece dispatched aircraft and naval vessels. They were expected to be joined by French teams, while the US sent a surveillance plane to help with the operation.
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