May 19 - EgyptAir flight 804 travelling from Paris to Cairo, a three-and-a-half-hour journey when it disappears from the radar at 2.45am Egypt time; it was 16km into Egyptian airspace but still over the Mediterranean
- 10 crew and 56 passengers on board - 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis, and one each from Algeria, Britain, Belgium, Canada, Chad, Kuwait, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan; no Australians on board
May 20 - Ships and planes from Egypt, Greece, France, the US and other nations search the Mediterranean Sea north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria
May 21 - Small pieces of wreckage and human remains are recovered, search narrowed down to five-kilometre area of the Mediterranean.
- Authorities confirm smoke was detected in multiple places on EgyptAir flight 804 moments before it plummeted into the Mediterranean
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June 1 - French ship Laplace detected black box signals from the missing plane.
June 13 - Authorities confirm radar shows aircraft turned 90 degrees left, then a full 360 degrees to the right, plummeting from 38,000 feet (11,582m) to 15,000 feet (4572m) before disappearing at about 10,000 feet (3048m)
- Egyptian investigators say nearly two weeks remain before the batteries of the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders expire and they stop emitting signals
June 16 - Search vessel John Lethbridge detects main locations of wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804
