Operated through Sharm on Thursday afternoon (1st January).
Air Safety Network (who are normally accurate with their facts) report the aircraft as taking off from either 22L or 22R. I would suggest 22R as we have never operated off the south runway in all the time I have been going there.
Radar has only recently been installed at Sharm. In a non-radar environment the normal departure off either runway (for aircraft heading to the north) is to go straight ahead for about three miles and then do a climbing turn over the sea back to the Sharm (SHM) VOR.
Air Safety Network reports the aircraft as reaching a height of about 5000' before control was lost which suggests that it was well into the turn and probably heading back to the VOR (but still over the sea).
An Italian news agency is reporting the aircraft as operating 4 sectors on Friday 2 January from Sharm to Turin and Sharm to Venice. On arrival back at Sharm it only spent a short time on the ground before departing for Cairo and CDG.
A Flash B733 was parked at Sharm Thursday evening as we taxied out for a 04L departure.