Amidst the chaos that is the current presidential election, you may or may not have heard about the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea this last Thursday morning.

Last week, Flight MS804 was en route to Cairo, Egypt, from Paris, France. Everything seemed to be relatively normal, even as the Airbus A320 crossed through Greek airspace. It was when the flight was set to enter Egyptian airspace that contact was lost. All 56 passengers and 10 flight officials were lost.

Greece's aviation officials have said that the radar showed Flight MS804 making two sharp turns -- turning left 90 degrees, and then right 360 degrees, before dropping more than 25,000 feet (7,620 meters). However, when air traffic controllers contacted the commercial pilot, they were told that everything was fine. It was only a couple of minutes later, as the MS804 was set to enter Egyptian airspace, that air traffic controllers lost all contact with the flight.

The Aviation Herald had reportedly stated that the plane's smoke detectors went off just three minutes before the flight plunged into the Mediterranean Sea. French authorities have been able to confirm that Aviation Herald's statement concerning the smoke detectors but have not been able to say the cause of the smoke. Investigators have been attempting to determine whether the flight was brought down by an act of terrorism, or by a technical fault.

If the plane's data logs (the black box) can be recovered, then investigators may be able to gain an insight into what really happened just before the flight crashed. However, data has been recovered from the flight's ACARS system, which sends short transmissions from the aircraft to receivers on the ground. Based on the information recovered from the ACARS system, it seems that the right, front and side windows were blown out -- most likely from the inside out.

Until the plane's data logs are recovered, the ACARS system offers the best insight as to what may have happened to the flight. At this time, both French and Egyptian ships are focused on locating the data logs.

Egyptian military forces have been doing their best to recover as much as they possibly can. They have recovered a large amount of debris, such as shoes, handbags, unused life vests and body parts from the Mediterranean Sea. They have no plans to stop searching anytime soon.

So far, no bodies, or even large sections of bodies, have been recovered. With no bodies to formally lay to rest, Egypt continues to mourn the loss of over 30 citizens.

Among those who disappeared with the flight was Ahmed Ashery, 31, who had sold his family's flat and car in order to raise money so that his wife, Reham, could undergo cancer surgery in France. According to an Egyptian newspaper, the couple had left their son and two daughters with his mother while they spent a month in Paris so Reham could recover from her surgery. The couple boarded their flight, excited to be reunited with their children, but their plane never made it back to Cairo.

Family members of those on the flight have been asked to provide DNA samples to aid in the eventual identification of the bodies.