The search for a missing passenger jet is intensifying, with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al Sisi ordering officials to take all necessary measures to find the plane.
EgyptAir flight MS804 departed Paris at 10.09pm BST on Wednesday but the plane lost contact with radar at 1.30am BST, just over three hours into its four-hour journey towards Cairo.
There were 56 passengers and 10 crew on board: 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis, a Belgian, a Kuwaiti, a Saudi, a Sudanese, a Chadian, an Algerian, a Portuguese and a Canadian. Among them were two babies and a child.
Briton Richard Osman, 40, was also on the 13-year-old plane.
Greek and French boats and planes have joined teams from the Egyptian armed forces in the search for the jet.
The UK has sent RFA Lyme Bay, which had been near Crete, and a C130 Hercules from RAF Akrotiri.
Greece also has a submarine on standby, while the US has offered its support.
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