Tears for the victims of MS804: Families gather to offer prayers for the missing crew and passengers of EgyptAir disaster – as search crews find severed arm, luggage and two-mile oil slick in the Med
EgyptAir flight MS804 carrying 66 people vanished from radar over the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo
Egyptian army discovered wreckage 180 miles north of the city of Alexandria and is hunting for jet’s black boxes
Heartbreaking details beginning to emerge about passengers and crew feared dead on board doomed Airbus A320
Air hostess Samar Ezz Eldin had posted an image on Facebook of a stewardess with a plane crashing into the sea
Family of pilot sacrificed everything so he could learn to fly while cabin manager gave up successful acting career
Wife of British passenger warned him to be careful but he laughed it off saying: ‘It is never going to happen to me’
By Nick Fagge In Cairo and Simon Tomlinson
DailyMail.com
20 May 2016
Hundreds of mourners gathered to offer prayers for the crew of missing EgyptAir flight MS804 today.
Family, friends and colleagues held back tears as the Imam led prays for their salvation at the Al Sedeq mosque close to Cairo International Airport.
The hour-long Friday prayers ended with pall bearers carrying a symbolic coffin for the missing bodies out of the sprawling mosque complex.
Outside family members told of their shock at the sudden disappearance of passenger jet. And colleagues praised the professionalism of the missing crew.
The father of co-pilot Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed Asem was overwhelmed by messages of condolence.
Mohamed’s cousin, Hizam Asem told MailOnline: ‘Mohamed was a very, very good pilot. He was the best in his class. He was very skilful.
‘Ever since he was a little boy he had wanted to fly a plane. And finally he was realising his dream. He was just a young man of 27 but he was living the life he had always wanted.’
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