EgyptAir flight MS804 crash: Briton on board missing plane named locally as Richard Osman

Mr Osman's name also appears on a passenger list which has been circulating online

The EgyptAir plane, an Airbus A320 registration SU-GCC, that crashed on 19 May 2016 seen in 2012 (EPA)

The British citizen feared missing on EgyptAir flight MS804 has been named locally as Richard Osman.

Mr Osman, 40, is believed to be one of the 56 passengers on board the flight from Paris to Cairo.

He works as the business development manager for the mining company Centamin and has a two-year-old daughter.

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Richard Osman, 40, is believed to be one of the 56 passengers on board the flight from Paris to Cairo

Tributes to the geologist have been shared on social media, the South Wales Evening Post reports.

Mr Osman's name also appears on a passenger list which has been circulating online.

He is believed to have been flying to work for the gold mining company in Egypt when the plane disappeared.

Mr Osman is reported to have family in the Swansea area but is believed to have been living in Jersey.

He is the oldest of his three siblings, Alistair, 35, Phillip, 34 and Anna, 32.

His late father Dr Mohamed Fekry Ali Osman and his wife, Anne, moved to Wales from Egypt to work as a consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery.

Mr Osman had been a pupil at Queen Elizabeth High School in Carmarthen, the Carmarthen Journal reports.

The Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones said he was "horrified" to hear the reports that a Welshman may be among the victims of the disaster.

The Foreign Office earlier said it was in contact with the family of a British national believed to have been on board.

EgyptAir flight MS804 went down about halfway between the Greek island of Crete and Egypt's northern coastline, authorities said.

All 66 people on board the flight, including a child and two babies, are feared dead.

Those on board, according to EgyptAir, included 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, two Iraqis, one Briton, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Belgian, one Algerian and one Canadian.

Debris believed to be from the missing plane has been found floating in the Mediterranean Sea.

Photos claiming to show debris from a crashed EgyptAir plane were posted on Facebook by Tarek Wahba, who was captaining a ship involved in the search for wreckage on 19 May (Tarek Wahba)

The objects appeared to be pieces of white and red plastic, Reuters reported, and were spotted where a transponder signal was emitted in the aftermath of the crash.

It is unclear if they were the same two items seen by an Egyptian search plane.

There is no immediate indication of the cause of the crash, but Greek air traffic controllers said the pilot did not respond to contact in the minutes before the plane disappeared.

The Greek defence minister said the aircraft has been at cruising altitude when it started rapidly losing altitude over the Mediterranean Sea shortly after entering Egyptian airspace.