A Falmouth based naval ship has joined the search for a missing Egyptian airliner that disappeared on Thursday morning.
The RFA LYme Bay has been deployed to the Mediterranean to help search for evidence of Egyptair flight MS804, which was en route from Paris to Cairo when with 66 people on board when it vanished from radar screens.
The circumstances around the disappearance are unknow, although the plane is believed to have crashed, and an Egyptian army spokesman has said wreckage and passenger belongings had been found, while the Greek defence minister Panos Kammenos reported that a body part and debris had been recovered.
Among those missing was a 40 year old man who had studied at Camborne School of Mines, based at the Penryn Campus.
Geologist Richard Osman, a father of two, was on his way to Cairo where he often worked as a geologist with a gold mining firm.
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