Egyptian flight MS804 wreckage found in Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria

Cairo : After a rigorous scouring, the Egyptian military has found the personal belongings of passengers and other debris of the Airbus floating in the Mediterranean and about 290 kilometres north of Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria.

The investigators tried to unravel the mystery of why it swerved suddenly and plummeted into the sea, reports the Guardian.

No group had claimed responsibility more than 24 hours after the disappearance of flight MS804, an Airbus A320 that was flying from Paris to Cairo.

Egypt's aviation minister (name)said that a 'terrorist attack'was a more likely cause than technical failure for the plane's disappearance from radar screens on a flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said there was "absolutely no indication" of why the flight came down.

The plane disappeared between Karpathos and the Egyptian coast in the early hours of Thursday morning, without its crew sending a distress signal.

Both Egypt and Greece dispatched aircraft and naval vessels on a search mission. They were expected to be joined by French teams, while the US sent a surveillance plane to help with the operation.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had demanded an 'intensified search' for the aircraft after earlier reports by the airline that wreckage from the plane had been found were retracted.

French President Francois Hollande said that it was clear the plane had crashed, and authorities in both Paris and Cairo opened investigations.

Egypt Air said 15 French citizens were among the 26 foreign passengers on the plane, who also included a Briton and at least one Canadian.

Both France and Egypt have come under attack by Islamic militants in the past year, and Hollande promised a comprehensive probe into the cause of the crash.