UPDATES at the end of this post.

EgyptAir flight 804 en route from Paris, France to Cairo, Egypt disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning, as reported by the New York Times. There were 66 souls aboard EgyptAir 804. There were ten crew (three were security agents) and 56 passengers, including one child and two infants. The break out of passengers and their countries:

According to the New York Times reporting:

EgyptAir said it had last made radar contact with the plane at 2:30 a.m., when it was 175 miles off the Egyptian coast. The plane’s pilot had spoken to Greek air traffic controllers four minutes earlier, and had not indicated that there was any problem, according to a spokesman for the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority. “Within three minutes, communication was lost,” he said.

In a flurry of posts on Twitter on Thursday, EgyptAir emphasized the experience of the crew of the missing airliner, an Airbus A320. The pilot has more than 6,000 flying hours, and the co-pilot has 2,700 hours, the airline said.