Family and friends are remembering one of the two Canadians on board EgyptAir Flight 804 as an amazing mother to her three sons, a beautiful soul and a considerate and professional woman.
The airline has confirmed that Marwa Hamdy was on the Paris to Cairo flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday with 66 people aboard.
Hamdy was born and raised in Saskatoon but moved to Egypt several years ago.
Those who knew and worked with her took to Facebook to mourn their loss.
The second Canadian has not been identified.
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Human remains, luggage and seats have been recovered, but the rest of the wreckage — along with the plane’s black boxes — are at the bottom of the Mediterranean, at a depth estimated at about three thousand metres.
The Airbus A320 had been cruising normally when it suddenly lurched left, then right, spun all the way around and plummeted into the sea, never issuing a distress signal.
There’s been a lot of speculation about the plane being downed by a bomb, but so far no hard evidence has emerged — and no militant group has claimed to have attacked the aircraft.