A BRITISH-AUSTRALIAN citizen who had recently celebrated the birth of his second child was among the passengers on board flight MS804.
Richard Osman, 40, from the island of Jersey, was travelling to Cairo for work after spending precious time in Paris with his French wife, who gave birth to their second daughter last month. The geologist was employed by Australian-listed mining company Centamin and held a senior role at their Sukari mine in Egypt. 
His brother Alastair said Mr Osman was "deliriously happy" about the birth of daughter Olympe, a sister for Victios, 14-months. "Richard was so happy at the birth of his second daughter, and yet two weeks later he is no longer with us - it's an absolute tragedy," he told ITV News.
He described his brother as someone who "never deviated from the straight path, and was very kind, loving and focused".
Mr Osman is one of the 66 people missing after the plane disappeared from the radar between Paris and Cairo on Thursday.
The Egyptian military said last night that a search for the missing plane had found personal belongings of the passengers and parts of the plane debris.
Richard regularly travelled to Cairo for work, his brother said, adding that it was almost incomprehensible to think a terrorist attack may have ended his life. "This is the reality of ISIS and groups like that. It's indiscriminate," he said. "They don't think any of these people have family members, or a past, or a history of hopes and dreams." The Osmans grew up in Wales, with brother Phillip and sister Anna, the children of ear, nose and throat specialist Dr Mohamed Fekry Ali Osman and wife Anne. Richard attended Queen Elizabeth Cambria School in Carmarthen and studied geology at Kingston University before taking a masters degree from Camborne School of Mines in Exeter. He was a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and spent at least five years with the Big Bell mine near Cue in WA.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said her department was "working closely with UK authorities" on consular assistance. "My thoughts are with the families and friends of those affected," she said.
Friends and colleagues posted tributes on social media in response to the tragic news.
"The best personality you would ever meet out of Sukari expats," said Hossam Hassan on Facebook. "We all learned from him." Mostafa Mohamed Talaat said one of the reasons he worked in mining was the support he received from Richard Osman. "RIP Richard, you been one of the effective people in the gold mining industry in Egypt," he wrote.
Pilot Mohamed Said Shoukair had over 6000 hours of flying experience and co-pilot Mohamed Mamdouh Ahmed had clocked 2766 flying hours.
Neither had radical or extremist political associations.
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