Saturday, 21 May 2016

EgyptAir crash: Who were the victims of MS804?


A clear picture has started to emerge of who was on board
flight MS804 as it went down over the Mediterranean on 19
May.
There were 56 passengers from 12 different countries, with 30
Egyptians and 15 French nationals among them.
There were also seven crew members and three Egyptian
security staff on board.
Richard Osman
Mr Osman, a 40-year-old geologist and father of two, grew up
in Carmarthen in South Wales but is thought to have recently
moved to Jersey.
He was the eldest son of the late Dr Mohamed Fekry Ali
Osman and wife Anne.
His father had moved to South Wales from his native Egypt to
work as a consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery.
Richard Osman was an executive for Jersey-based mining
company Centamin and had previously worked in Australia
and Egypt.
'Deprived of a wonderful future'
Marwa Hamdy
Canadian media said one of the victims was Ms Hamdy, an
executive with IBM originally from Saskatoon in the province
of Saskatchewan, but who had relocated to Cairo.
A family friend told the National Post that Ms Hamdy, a
mother of three boys aged between 11 and 16, had been
visiting family in Paris.
"I asked her son: 'How do you want people to remember her?'"
the family friend, Haleh Banani, told the National Post . "He
said, 'As a kind, loving woman, who helped a lot of people.'"
EgyptAir had initially said only one Canadian was on board, but
Canada's Foreign Minister Stephane Dion said there were two.
Bettiche family
A spokesman with Algeria's foreign ministry said an Algerian-
born woman, Nouha Saoudi, her husband Faycal, daughter
Joumana and son Mohammed had been on board.
He said Nouha Saoudi had been naturalised as a French
citizen in the western city of Nantes.
Separately, media in France say an unnamed couple in their
40s from Angers, close to Nantes, as well as their two
children, were passengers. It is unclear if they are referring to
the Bettiche family.
EgyptAir had said on Thursday there were only three children
on board .
Reports say the couple from Angers owned a market stall, and
that one of their children was a baby.
In an interview late on Thursday, Angers mayor Christophe
Bechu said: "They were lovely people, with whom no-one had
any problems at all, who'd been here in Angers for some time."
Ahmed Helal
The company Procter and Gamble said Mr Helal had managed
one of its plants in Amiens, France, and was on board the
flight.
He joined the company in 2000 in his native Egypt, it said. He
earned a mechanical engineering degree from The American
University in Cairo in 1999, the Associated Press news agency
reports, quoting his LinkedIn profile.
Unnamed victim from Chad
A spokesman for Chad's embassy in France, Muhammed
Allamine, confirmed to the BBC a Chadian citizen had been on
board, but did not name him.
"He just lost his mother actually," Mr Allamine said. "He was
going to Chad to mourn his mother. He [was] going to give
condolences to his family."
Mr Allamine added that the man had been a student at
France's leading military academy in Saint Cyr.
Sahar al-Khawaga
Egypt's al-Ahram newspaper and AP report that Ms al-
Khawaga, a Saudi national who worked at her country's
embassy in Cairo, was one of the victims.
She had worked in Cairo for 13 years, AP says, and had been
following up on her daughter's medical treatment in Paris.
Pascal Hess
Media in Normandy, France, say Mr Hess, 51, almost missed
the flight after losing his passport days earlier. It was later
found in the street in the town of Evreux, where he lived, a
community website said (in French) .
A minute's silence was held on Friday to remember Mr Hess, a
freelance rock photographer, the website says.
Read more: MS804 passenger 'almost missed flight'
Four members of same family
The Cairo-based Lebanese film director Osman Abu Laban
wrote on his Facebook page that he had lost four members of
his family in the crash - his uncle and aunt, as well as his
cousin and his cousin's wife.
Abdulmohsen al-Muteiri
Kuwait's foreign ministry named Mr al-Mutei

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