Victims of EgyptAir MS804 'terror attack' named as former TV actress, and captain promoted four days earlier

Flight attendant Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, is among those feared killed

The names of passengers feared killed in the EgyptAir crash emerged today.

Among them was Ahmed Helal, a 40-year-old director of a Procter & Gamble production facility in Amiens, France.

According to the company he was on a personal trip to Egypt to visit his sick father.

Mr Helal had a wife, a teenage daughter and a young son.

The only British national on the flight was geologist Richard Osman, 40, who had recently welcomed the bir second daughter into the world with his French wife.

Mervat Zakaria, pictured with her daughter, is among those feared killed in the crash

Cabin manager Mervat Zakaria was today revealed to be a former television actress who gave up a successful career to join the carrier in 1986.

Ms Zakaria, who is believed to be married with one daughter, had been promoted to her position just one month before the crash.

Newly-promoted Captain Mohamed Said Shoukair is also feared dead

Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, was a flight attendant on board. She had worked for the airline for two years and had recently got married.

Her friend Asma Yasser, also a member of EgyptAir cabin crew, said online today: “I lost one of my best friend i’ve ever had u broke my heart may god rest your purest soul in peace i love you good bye my friend, Samar Ezz Eldin “flight attendants dont die they go high” you will be missed.”

Ms Eldin had once joked about planes crashing into the sea, uploading an image on Facebook of an air stewardess pulling her suitcase from the water as an aircraft plummets behind her.

Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, was a flight attendant on board. She had worked for the airline for two years and had recently got married.

Ahmed Helal  was also on board the plane

Abdelrahman El Suhail, an economics professor from Kuwait, left his two disabled children in Paris on Wednesday night for medical treatment before heading to a conference in Cairo on board and flight 804.

His distraught nephew, Mishary El Suhail, said: “I just hope it wasn’t painful. God have mercy on his soul.”

Among the 15 missing French on board was 74-year-old business consultant and father-of-five Pierre Heslouin who was travelling with one of his sons.

Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed Assem was the plane's First Officer

Newspaper Le Dépêche said another victim was Frenchman Pascal Hess, almost missed the flight after losing his passport.

He was heading to Egypt for a 10-day holiday around the Red Sea.

Seitchi Mahamat, a citizen of Chad, was also killed.

He was a cadet at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, an elite engineering and military academy on the outskirts of Paris.

The Saudi Embassy in Cairo said a 52-year-old female employee was also among the passengers. Ambassador Ahmed Kattan told Saudi state television that she had gone to France with her daughter for medical treatment.

Joao David e Silva, who worked for the Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil, was also on the flight. The 62-year-old married father-of-four is based in Johannesburg because of his job although his family lives in Lisbon, a Portuguese government source told CNN.

The company confirmed one of its employees was on the flight.

Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed Assem, 24, is the first officer on EgyptAir Flight 804. He lives in Cairo and has 2,766 flying hours. His Facebook page has been turned into a memorial by distraught friends.

Flight captain was 36-year-old Mohamed Said Shoukair, from Cairo, who had 6,275 flying hours and joined the airline in 2004.

An Egyptian interior ministry official told the New York Times the pilots had “no known political affiliations” and had passed periodical background checks.

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