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Posted: 2016-05-19T17:59:49Z | Updated: 2016-05-22T14:01:38Z

EgyptAir Flight MS804 disappeared from radar early Thursday morning en route from Paris to Cairo, with 66 people on board. The Airbus A320, manufactured in 2003, was last recorded over the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of Greece:

Here's a timeline of what we know so far:

Wednesday, 11:09 p.m. (Paris time zone): Flight MS804 takes off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, with an estimated arrival time in Cairo of 3:15 a.m.

Thursday, 1:24 a.m.: Officials in Athens acknowledge the flight as it enters Greek airspace.

1:48 a.m.: Pilots aboard the flight check in with Greek authorities at a scheduled waypoint.

2:27 a.m.: Greek air traffic controllers attempt to contact the plane 10 miles before it exits Greek airspace but receive no response. After repeated calls go unanswered , the controller calls the plane on its distress frequency, again with no response.

2:29 a.m.: MS804 exits Greek airspace and enters Egyptian airspace.

2:39 a.m.: The flight disappears from radar about 45 minutes prior to its scheduled landing. According to Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos , The plane carried out a 90-degree turn to the left and a 360-degree turn to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet."

2:45 a.m.: Greek officials begin search and rescue operations.

6:54 p.m.: EgyptAir reports that wreckage of what appears to be its plane has been found in the Mediterranean, near the Greek island of Karpathos.

8:55 p.m.: Greek air safety officials say the debris recovered did not belong to an aircraft , contradicting EgyptAir's report.

Friday, 12:05 p.m.: The Egyptian military said it had found parts of debris from the missing plane 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of the country's coastal city of Alexandria.

The navy has also found passengers belongings and is sweeping the area looking for the planes black box, the military said in a statement.