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On 19 May 2016, EgyptAir Flight 804 carrying 66 passengers disappeared from radar as it flew over the Mediterranean Sea from Paris to Cairo. Shortly after the news of the missing plane broke, a video purportedly showing a ball of fire streaking across the sky at the same time the EgyptAir flight disappeared from radar went viral on social media: Although this video does depict a real event in the skies, that event did not occur at the same time as, nor was it connected to, the disappearance of EgyptAir Flight 804. The above-displayed footage was actually taken in December 2015 and captured debris from a Russian rocket as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere: The complete story of what happened EgyptAir Flight 804 is not known at the time of this writing.
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