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What we know about passengers and crew on EgyptAir Flight 804

Posted at 12:15 AM, May 22, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-22 00:15:45-04

There were 66 on board. Middle Easterners, Europeans and Canadians. Adults and children.

Until it has informed all family members, EgyptAir says it won’t release the names of those who were on the plane.

Here’s what we know so far of those aboard the Airbus when it crashed Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea on its way from Paris to Cairo.

They included 30 Egyptians, 15 French and two Canadians, as well as one person from the following countries: Algeria, Belgium, Chad, Iraq, Kuwait, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. A British national on board the flight also has citizenship in Australia and Egypt.

The crew

Ten people made up the crew.

Mohamed Said Shoukair

Shoukair piloted missing EgyptAir Flight 804, according to an official close to the investigation and a security source. His Facebook page says he has been with EgyptAir since 2004 and lives in Cairo.

“He’s a very well-trained, highly disciplined captain,” EgyptAir Vice Chairman Ahmed Adel said.

“He has a good reputation and was a good colleague of mine.”

The captain has 6,275 flying hours, including 2,101 on the A320 — the aircraft model used for the flight.

Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed Assem

Assem, 24, is the first officer on EgyptAir Flight 804, according to an official close to the investigation and a security source. He lives in Cairo.

By Thursday evening, his Facebook account had been turned into a memorial page, and some of his friends had changed their profile picture to images of him. On Friday, friends and family gathered at a Cairo mosque to mourn him.

His uncles say he is a good man, engaged to be married soon, and are angry that some have implied the pilots were at fault considering plane came out of Paris.

Assem has 2,766 flying hours under his belt.

Mirvat Zaharia Zaki Mohamed

Mohamed is the purser, or head flight attendant of EgyptAir Flight 804, according to an official close to the investigation and a security source.

Samar Ezz Eddin Safwat Youssef

Youssef is a flight attendant aboard the flight, according to her family, and a newlywed married only six or seven months. “She’s always traveling,” a relative named Mervat told CNN. “The last time we saw here was her wedding day.”

Her aunt, Anwaar Mohsen, said she talked to Youssef on the phone this week. “She told me she was doing fine and was laughing. I’m praying for her,” Mohsen said.

Yara Hani Farag Tawfiq

Friends of 25-year-old Tawfiq, a flight attendant aboard EgyptAir 804, arrived at a service for her Saturday dressed in white rather than the traditional black.

“She never got to be a bride, so she is a bride now in heaven. This is not her funeral, it is her wedding for a whole afterlife of happiness,” her friend of a decade, Sandy Makram, told CNN through tears.

The EgyptAir crew member of more than two years was described as a bright and bubbly women who loved her job and considered her colleagues to be family.

“She is a sweetheart. We called her our baby friend because she had this childish spirit. She always wanted to fly. She was so imaginative,” Makram told CNN.

At the Saint Mary and Saint Athanasius Church in Cairo, family members and loved ones were overcome with grief. Tafiq’s mother was nearly inconsolable as she greeted dozens who came to pay their condolences.

“She loved going out. She loved her friends. She loved her family. She was very adventurous. She loved her work,” Tawfiq’s father said. “It is such a shock for everyone. She was young, she’s never been married. But I accept this is God’s faith.”

“i just can’t believe this. I don’t even know what to say. I feel like I am in a dream,” said Tawfiq’s 18-year old cousin, Maryam.

“I will be a flight attendant like her,” the young woman said with determination. “God wiling.”

Other crew members

The Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry identified the other crew members as: Atef Lotfi Abdel Latif Amin and Haitham Mostafa Abdel Hamid El-Azizy.

Security personnel

The security team aboard the airplane was identiied Friday by the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry as Walid Ouda Ahmed El Dib, Mohamed Farag Hussein Diab and Mahmoud El Sayed Mohamed Mansour.

The passengers

The 56 passengers included two infants and a child.

Pascal Hess

The 51-year-old man from Evreux, France, was a passenger on board AirEgypt Flight 804, according to a statement from an Evreux spokesman. He was on his way to Egypt for a holiday by the the Red Sea with a friend. He is an independent photographer in the local rock scene and also works at a local hospital.

Richard Osman

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed that Osman was one of the passengers on the flight. A representative described him as a “trinational” of Britain, Australia and Egypt.

Marwa Hamdy

Canadian media reports that Hamdy is a Canadian national living in Cairo. Hamdy is the mother of three young boys, her friend Mariam Emara told CNN.

A Facebook post by her children’s school, the Hayah International Academy, reads: “A devoted and loving mother, Marwa is greatly appreciated by everyone who has had the chance to deal with her. Her children’s teachers and Hayah parents who know Marwa personally speak of her dedicated and supportive nature; always there to offer a helping hand with a pure smile. Our heart and prayers go out to her and her family.”

Hamdy studies pranic healing and meditation, Emara said, and gives lectures and leads group meditation sessions to help people overcome their fears and enjoy life.

“Everyone who knew Marwa fell in love with her from the first moment,” Emara said.

Abdulmohsen Al-Muteiri

State-run Kuwait News Agency reported that Kuwaiti citizen Abdulmohsen Al-Muteiri was one of the passengers on EgyptAir Flight 804. The assistant foreign minister for consular affairs confirmed the information with the news agency.

Ahmed Helal

Helal, 40, is a director of a Procter & Gamble production facility in Amiens, France. He was on a personal trip to Egypt, according to the American consumer goods company, to visit his sick father.

“He possessed exceptional qualities that made a great leader, a great technician, a great plant director,” Proctor & Gamble’s Christophe Duron said.

“The most important quality about Ahmed is his personal quality. I had regular relations with Ahmed. He gave you the impression that you (knew) him for a long time. He makes you at ease,” he said.

Others at the company described him as a warm person who was “always smiling.”

Helal started his career in the United States and worked in Cairo but had taken the position at the Amiens plant two years ago.

Amgad Adib

A priest who identified himself as a friend of Adib’s described him as a charitable businessman in his late 40s.

“He was like a brother and a son to me,” the priest said as he left Cairo International Airport’s crisis center.

Joao David e Silva

Silva specializes in emerging markets and works for the Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil. The 62-year-old married father of four is based in Johannesburg because of his job, although his family lives in Lisbon, a Portuguese government source said. Without revealing his name, the company confirmed one of its employees was on the flight.