Be Informed: The young lives cut short by MS804 'terror attack': A stewardess who joked about planes crashing into sea, a cabin manager who was once a TV actress and a captain promoted four days earlier

.EgyptAir flight MS804 carrying 66 people vanished from radar over the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo

.Heartbreaking details beginning to emerge about the passengers and crew feared on board doomed Airbus A320

By NICK FAGGE IN CAIRO and SIMON TOMLINSON FOR BE INFORMED ONLINE

PUBLISHED: 08:36 GMT, 20 May 2016 | UPDATED: 09:31 GMT, 20 May 2016

An air hostess on EgyptAir flight MS804 had posted a picture of a stewardess with a plane crashing into the sea on Facebook, it has emerged.

Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, uploaded the image in September 2014 just four months after she started working at Egypt's national carrier.

It shows another air hostess dressed smartly in wet clothes pulling a carry-on suitcase out of the water with an image of a passenger jet plunging into the sea behind her.

Miss Eldin, who studied modern languages at the Ain Shams University in Cairo, was among the first victims to be named as investigators admitted the cause of the disaster was still a mystery.

The search was continuing today for wreckage of the Airbus A320 which vanished from radar near Greece while carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo in a suspected terror attack.

Heartbreaking details are also emerging about others on board including the captain who celebrated a promotion just four days earlier, the co-pilot whose family sacrificed everything so he could learn to fly and a cabin manager who was a former TV actress.

EgyptAir stewardess Samar Ezz Eldin (left) posted a picture of an air hostess in front of a passenger jet crashing into the sea behind her

EgyptAir stewardess Samar Ezz Eldin had posted a picture of an air hostess in front of a passenger jet crashing into the sea behind her

on her Facebook page. The 27-year-old was among the first passengers and crew on board Flight MS804 to be named

Held huge dinner: Captain Mohamed Said Ali Ali Shoukair celebrated a promotion just four days before the crash, MailOnline can reveal

The family of co-pilot Mohammad Mamdouh Assem had sacrificed everything so could fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a pilot

Captain Mohamed Said Ali Ali Shoukair, 37, from Giza, had invited his colleagues and former flying school classmates to a huge dinner to celebrate his promotion to the rank of senior pilot.

Ahmed Adly, of the Egyptian Pilots Association, told MailOnline: 'I can confirm that Mohamed Said Ali Ali Shoukair was the captain of the Egyptair MS804 that has been lost.'

Another friend Ahmed Mashaal said: 'God bless you Shoukair. I last saw him four days ago at a party.

'He invited his whole colleagues from EgyptAir and fellow students from the flying school to a huge dinner to celebrate his promotion four days ago [on Monday]. He was celebrating his promotion.'

Captain Shoukair was a very experienced pilot with 6275 flying hours, 2101 of those hours flying an Airbus 806. He was not married and did not have any children.

His co-pilot Mohammad Mamdouh Assem had dreamed of becoming a pilot since he was five years old and his mother had put all her savings into helping him achieved his lifelong goal.

Cabin manager Mervat Zakaria was also revealed to be a former TV actress who had been promoted to her position just one month before the crash.

Ms Zakaria had joined the national airline carrier in 1986 after giving up a successful acting career.

She had starred as a troubled teenager, Hala Awad, who had lost her mother in the hit Egyptian drama Abu El Ela El-Bashery.

The show was named after the character of the widower who was bringing up his daughters on his own.

However Ms Zakaria, who is believed to be married with a daughter, stopped acting before the second series to take up a career as an air hostess for EgyptAir.

Yesterday, it emerged British passenger Richard Osman had recently celebrated becoming a father for the second time.In the wake of the crash, his family spoke out about their heartbreak.

Family man: Richard Osman was among the 66 victims on board the jet. His brother has described his 'delirious happiness' after the birth of his second daughter just three weeks ago. Mr Osman is pictured here with his French-born wife Aureilie and his first daughter Victios

Happier times: Mr Osman's brother has spoken of his 'shock' at hearing the news of the plane crash this morning. Mr Osman, a geologist who was travelling to Egypt for work, leaves behind a wife (pictured here on their wedding day) and two infant daughters

Future: Mr Osman's brother Alastair described the crash as an 'absolute tragedy', adding that Mr Osman had been looking forward to a 'lovely future' with his wife and two young daughters

Mr Osman had celebrated the birth of his second daughter Olympe just three weeks ago, and was travelling to Egypt for work.

'I still can't take it in,' said his brother Alastair, in Swansea.

'I got a call from our sister first thing this morning and I'm still in shock.

'Richard was so happy at the birth of his second daughter, and yet weeks later he is no longer with us - it's an absolute tragedy.'

Mr Osman, a geologist, was also father to a 14-month-old girl called Victios.

His two daughters are being looked after by their French-born mother Aureilie, 36, in Paris, where the couple have a home.

Mr Osman's brother Alastair, 36, a biochemistry student at Swansea University, said: 'Of all the family I would've thought Richard would have been the last to go.'

'He was incredibly fit and a workaholic and since leaving university he has never stopped.

'He was really happy about having the baby and was looking forward to enjoying a lovely family life with his two girls.'

He is believed to be a dual citizen of Australia, following a statement issued by the Australian government saying that one of those presumed dead is a UK-Australia dual national.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop declined to give additional details, including details on the passenger's identity.

The 56 passengers on board included one Briton, 30 Egyptians, 15 French, one Belgian, one Iraqi, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi Arabian, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and at least one Canadian.

A Canadian woman among the passengers has also been named as Marwa Hamdy.

Other crew members included air-hostesses Mervat Zakaria and Yara Hany, stewards Atef Lotfy and Haietham Elazizi and EgyptAir security officers Mahmoud Ahmed, Ahmed Mohamed Magdy and Mohamed Abd El Menem.

The search is continuing for missing EgyptAir flight 804, which disappeared from the radar while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo.

Wreckage of MS804? This image posted online purportedly shows a piece of debris from the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board. EgyptAir earlier said the wreckage was from the plane, but has now retracted the statement