Posted on Facebook, chilling prophecy made by stewardess on doomed Med jet
A STEWARDESS on the doomed EgyptAir flight posted a chilling image of a jet crashing into the sea on her Facebook page months earlier.
Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, published it because ‘she felt deep down that one day she would die in an air disaster’, a friend said yesterday.
The image shows a flight attendant walking calmly out of the sea with her case as a stricken passenger jet disappears beneath the waves behind her. Mrs Ezz Eldin, who had recently married, posted the picture 20 months ago shortly after joining the airline.
Her friend said: ‘It was the job of her dreams, but she always felt a nagging feeling at the back of her mind that something bad would happen.
‘She was often telling friends that she would die in an airline crash. This is very sad but also prophetic.’ The flight attendant was one of 66 passengers and crew who died when EgyptAir Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo crashed into the Mediterranean on Thursday.
As the search continued for the wreckage yesterday, debris, body parts, suitcases and other belongings were found floating in the sea about 180 miles from the port of Alexandra.
The spot is south of where the Airbus A320 vanished from radar signals. Satellites are also said to have detected a possible 1.2-mile long oil
‘Told friends she’d die in an air crash’
slick in the area. Security agencies from nations including Britain held an emergency meeting in Paris yesterday in an attempt to establish the cause of the disaster.
Investigators believe it was downed by terrorists – but are still unsure whether it was the result of a hijacking or a bomb, even though no terror group has yet claimed responsibility.
Although there is no reason to suspect that Mrs Ezz Eldi is a suspect, security officials are scrutinising all aircraft crew in the 48 hours before the tragedy.
The lone Briton on the flight was father-of-two Richard Osman, 40, whose wife Aurelie had warned him to be careful when travelling.
However, the geologist from Wales is said to have shrugged off her fears, saying: ‘It is never going to happen to me.’
Intelligence agencies are also looking into the backgrounds of three passengers who flew on the jet while it made a number of flights on Thursday. The aircraft began its operations at the Eritrean capital Asmara, whose airport British intelligence says is a security ‘joke’. It then flew to Cairo and performed a return trip to Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, where Islamic State fanatics last year twice carried out attacks on tourists. On its final flight to the Egyptian capital, the Airbus is said to have made ‘ sudden swerves’ in mid-air, lurching 90 degrees to the left and circling to the right before plunging into the Mediterranean.
An intelligence source said: ‘There was no mayday call from the cockpit which suggests that it was a terrorist attack.
‘We are still trying to ascertain if the crew in the cockpit were overpowered by hijackers or if a bomb went off. We will only know when we examine the wreckage.’
Agencies did not pick up any unusual ‘ chatter’ in France or Egypt in the days before the attack, the source added.
Mike Vivian, former head of operations at the Civil Aviation Authority, said the jet’s sudden swerves before vanishing were more likely to be caused by a forced cockpit takeover than a bomb.
‘One’s inclined to go towards the theory that there had been some interference in the aircraft and on the flight deck, with the control of the aircraft,’ he said.
The Government is refusing to say if changes to security procedures will be put in place until the cause of the crash is known. In Cairo, thousands of mourners attended memorial services to remember those who had perished, with pall bearers carrying symbolic coffins.
The father of EgyptAir pilot Mohamed Said Ali Ali Shoukair had to be taken to hospital after collapsing in a mosque.
The 37-year- old captain, from Giza, had only celebrated his promotion to the rank of senior pilot four days before the crash.