Flight no MS804 was travelling from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris to Cairo, and took off at 11.09pm Central European Summer Time.
The airline said the A320 - with 59 passengers and 10 crew on board - lost contact at 02:45 local time, at an altitude of 37,000 feet.
In March, a domestic EgyptAir flight with 72 passengers on board had to make an emergency diversion to Larnaca, Cyprus, after an alleged hijacking.
In October 2015, 224 people were killed when a Russian aircraft crashed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula minutes after it took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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