EgyptAir jet crash was 'almost certainly a terror attack': Air safety chief's warning after flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people - including one Briton - disappears over the Mediterranean

Experts today warned that the Airbus A320 (left inset) was very likely brought down by a terror attack because no distress call had been made before it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

Flight MS804 left the French capital's Charles De Gaulle Airport at 9.09pm GMT last night before coming down off the Greek island of Karpathos ten miles into Egyptian airspace at around 00.30am (right inset). Jean-Paul Troadec, the former chief of the BEA national investigation unit, said: 'The team said nothing. They did not react, so it was very probably a brutal event and we can certainly think about an attack.'

The 56 passengers on board included one Briton, 30 Egyptians, 15 French, one Belgian, one Iraqi, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi Arabian, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and one Canadian. Devastated relatives wept and comforted each other (left) as they waited for news on their loved ones at Cairo International Airport (left and centre) and Charles De Gaulle (right).