CAIRO: New details have emerged focusing on the last moments of the passengers and crew members of the ill-fated EgyptAir Flight 804.
Sameh Shaqeer, a cousin of the pilot Mohammad Shaqeer, told Al Arabiya’s Arabic website that his cousin called him from France seven hours before the plane took off to tell him about the bride he chose for him, adding that he also called him five hours later to ask him if he needed anything from Paris.
Sameh also said that Mohammad was unmarried and that he recently bought a piece of land to build a villa to settle down in one day.
Commenting on a CNN report that hinted the crash had been caused by Mohammad committing suicide, Sameh said the channel apologized to the family through its reporter in Cairo.
The pilot's cousin also clarified that Mohammad was not scheduled for the 804 specific flight but had chosen to take it to buy some things for his wedding and because some pilots were on strike.
Crew member Yara Hani Farag was engaged to another pilot named Peter who upon learning about the crash said he was sorry he ended his engagement to her and expressed sorrow that she was among the victims.
Peter said he and Yara got engaged two years ago and were planning to get married in May this year but decided to separate six months ago.
Meanwhile, in Minya, south of Egypt, the town of Saft Al-Laban mourned its son Wefqi Isaac Mikhaeil who booked a ticket on that flight only two hours before it took off.
According to his family, he was traveling to Egypt to take his wife and two children back to France after they spent their Easter vacation there.
Sameh Shaqeer, a cousin of the pilot Mohammad Shaqeer, told Al Arabiya’s Arabic website that his cousin called him from France seven hours before the plane took off to tell him about the bride he chose for him, adding that he also called him five hours later to ask him if he needed anything from Paris.
Sameh also said that Mohammad was unmarried and that he recently bought a piece of land to build a villa to settle down in one day.
Commenting on a CNN report that hinted the crash had been caused by Mohammad committing suicide, Sameh said the channel apologized to the family through its reporter in Cairo.
The pilot's cousin also clarified that Mohammad was not scheduled for the 804 specific flight but had chosen to take it to buy some things for his wedding and because some pilots were on strike.
Crew member Yara Hani Farag was engaged to another pilot named Peter who upon learning about the crash said he was sorry he ended his engagement to her and expressed sorrow that she was among the victims.
Peter said he and Yara got engaged two years ago and were planning to get married in May this year but decided to separate six months ago.
Meanwhile, in Minya, south of Egypt, the town of Saft Al-Laban mourned its son Wefqi Isaac Mikhaeil who booked a ticket on that flight only two hours before it took off.
According to his family, he was traveling to Egypt to take his wife and two children back to France after they spent their Easter vacation there.
