EgyptAir retracts claim that 'wreckage' of Flight 804 was found

Update 5:25 p.m.: EgyptAir has retracted its claim that the wreckage of Flight 804 was found Thursday, CNN reports. "We stand corrected on finding the wreckage," the vice chairman of EgyptAir told CNN's Jake Tapper. "What we identified is not a part of our plane, so the search and rescue is still going on."

Update 3:25 p.m.: The head of the Greek air safety authority denied EgyptAir's reports on Thursday that "the wreckage" of Flight 804 had been found. The debris, which was spotted by an Egyptian aircraft, "does not come from a plane," the Greek official said.

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EgyptAir confirmed Thursday that "the wreckage" of Flight 804 has been found:

The plane vanished off radars en route from Paris to Cairo early Thursday morning. The Greek army reported earlier that it had found what is believed to be debris from the plane, apparently located around 230 nautical miles off the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea. No distress signal came from the plane before it went down. Thirty of the flight's passengers were from Egypt, 15 were from France, and the rest hailed from Europe, the Middle East, and Canada.

Terrorism is the suspected cause of the crash; U.S. government officials are floating an initial theory that a bomb took down the plane.