First picture of British geologist feared dead in EgyptAir 'terror attack': Pictures 'show wreckage floating off Greek island' after Flight MS804 went into 'sharp spin' and plunged 22,000ft into sea

The pictures posted online purportedly show debris from the doomed Airbus A320 (pictured, left inset, on a previous flight) that crashed into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board.

The images emerged as search vessels reported seeing large objects floating in the sea around 230 miles south of the island of Crete.

Greek defence minister Panos Kammenos said flight MS804 disappeared after going into a sudden spin and plunging 22,000ft before vanishing off the radar (right inset) at 00.30am GMT without making a distress call.

The revelation came as security experts, ministers and former air accident investigators said all the evidence pointed to the plane being targeted in a terrorist 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. The British national has been named locally as Richard Osman, a 40-year-old geologist from Carmarthen in west Wales (top-right inset).

Meanwhile, devastated relatives wept and comforted each other as they waited for news on their loved ones at Cairo International Airport (left) and Charles De Gaulle airport (right) where the plane took off.

            source:dailymail