EgyptAir flight MS804: Carmarthenshire man Richard Osman on board plane

A Welsh-born geologist was among the 66 people on board the crashed EgyptAir flight.

Flight MS804 disappeared from radar overnight over the Mediterranean after making two sharp turns and plunging into the sea.

40 year old passenger Richard Osman grew up in Carmarthen and was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth Cambria School who later went on to study geology but is thought to have recently moved to Jersey.

Greek and Egyptian officials have confirmed that some debris has been spotted in the ocean, although the pieces already recovered have not yet been confirmed as parts of the ill-fated flight.

Father-of-two Mr Osman has three siblings; Alastair, 35, Phillip, 34, and Anna, 32, who grew up in south Wales after their father moved there from his native Egypt to work as a consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery.

EgyptAir said passengers on board also included 30 Egyptians, 15 French citizens, two Iraqis, as well as individuals from Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Algeria, Sudan, Chad and Portugal. There were two infants and one child on board.

A major search and rescue operation is under way in the sea near Karpathos Island, around 50 miles east of Crete, which will soon be joined by a British warship from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA Lyme Bay).  The ship will begin searching along the aircrafts flight path today (Friday 20th May) whilst C-130 Hercules aircraft from the RAF base at Cyprus assist efforts with specialist equipment.