Report: Ominous graffiti was scribbled on the bottom of the crashed EgyptAir flight

Ominous graffiti reading "We will bring this plane down" in Arabic was written underneath the EgyptAir jet that crashed en route from Paris to Cairo on Thursday morning, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

The note is believed to have been written about two years ago by aviation workers at Cairo Airport who were sympathetic to the Muslim brotherhood, according to three Egyptian officials.

"Playing on the phonetic similarity between the last two letters in the plane's registration, SU-GCC, and the surname of Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, some workers also wrote 'traitor' and 'murderer,'" the Times reported.

Three EgyptAir in-flight security officers,Walid Ouda, Mohammed Farag and Mahmoud el Sayed, were on the flight when it crashed, according to the Times. Officials said there are usually two security personnel on every EgyptAir flight, and previous statements from aviation authorities indicate that the third onboard guard was a trainee.

Significantly, flights over Egypt have encountered trouble on several occasions in the past year, prompting aviation authorities to instruct pilots to fly above 26,000 feet in the region.

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