There were 56 passengers from 12 different countries, with 30 Egyptians and 15 French nationals among them. There were also seven crew members and three Egyptian security staff on board. Mr Osman, a 40-year-old geologist and father of two, grew up in Carmarthen in South Wales but is thought to have recently moved to Jersey. He was the eldest son of the late Dr Mohamed Fekry Ali Osman and wife Anne. His father had moved to South Wales from his native Egypt to work as a consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery. Richard Osman was an executive for Jersey-based mining company Centamin and had previously worked in Australia and Egypt. Welsh man on crashed EgyptAir flight Marwa Hamdy Canadian media said one of the victims was Ms Hamdy, an executive with IBM originally from Saskatoon in the province of Saskatchewan, but who had relocated to Cairo. A family friend told the National Post that Ms Hamdy, a mother of three boys aged between 11 and 16, had been visiting family in Paris. “I asked her son: ‘How do you want people to remember her?'” the family friend, Haleh Banani, told the National Post. “He said, ‘As a kind, loving woman, who helped a lot of people.'” EgyptAir had initially said only one Canadian was on board, but Canada’s Foreign Minister Stephane Dion said there were two. Family of four from Angers, France Media in France say an unnamed couple in their 40s from Angers in north-west France, as well as their two children, were missing. Reports say the couple owned a market stall, and that one of their children was a baby. In an interview late on Thursday, Angers mayor Christophe Bechu said: “They were lovely people, with whom no-one had any problems at all, who’d been here in Angers for some time.” Ahmed Helal The company Procter and Gamble said Mr Helal had managed one of its plants in Amiens, France, and was on board the flight. He joined the company in 2000 in his native Egypt, it said. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from The American University in Cairo in 1999, the Associated Press news agency reports, quoting his LinkedIn profile. Unnamed victim from Chad A spokesman for Chad’s embassy in France, Muhammed Allamine, confirmed to the BBC a Chadian citizen had been on board, but did not name him. “He just lost his mother actually,” Mr Allamine said. “He was going to Chad to mourn his mother. He [was] going to give condolences to his family.” Mr Allamine added that the man had been a student at France’s leading military academy in Saint Cyr. Sahar al-Khawaga Egypt’s al-Ahram newspaper and AP report that Ms al-Khawaga, a Saudi national who worked at her country’s embassy in Cairo, was one of the victims. She had worked in Cairo for 13 years, AP says, and had been following up on her daughter’s medical treatment in Paris. Pascal Hess Media in Normandy, France, say Mr Hess, 51, almost missed the flight after losing his passport days earlier. It was later found in the street in the town of Evreux, where he lived, a community website said (in French). A minute’s silence was held on Friday to remember Mr Hess, a freelance rock photographer, the website says. Abdulmohsen al-Muteiri Kuwait’s foreign ministry named Mr al-Muteiri, a Kuwaiti national, as one of the MS804 passengers, but did not give more details. The Guardian reports that he was an economics professor and a father of two, who was travelling to Cairo for a three-day conference. Joao David e Silva Portuguese media quote the government as saying the 62-year-old civil engineer was the only Portuguese passenger on the flight. He was due to travel from Cairo to Accra in Ghana for a conference, the Correio da Manha newspaper reports (in Portuguese). Source: bbc]]>