Medhat Tanious and Merna Tanious

Mediterranean Sea: His daughter Merna said her father had flown to France to surprise his youngest sister, who lived in Australia and who was meeting other family members in Paris, according to CTV. He was en route to Cairo to visit his in-laws at the time of the crash, she added. Medhat Tanious of Toronto was one of two Canadians to die when Flight 804 plunged into the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday en route from Paris to Cairo. Merna Tanious said she, her mother Gehan Erian and sisters Marina and Mariem are seeking solace for his death by remembering his impact on others. "He had a heart of a child," Merna Tanious said in a telephone interview from Toronto. "He loved unconditionally, and he had an unbelievable ability to forgive all people that did him wrong." Medhat lived much of his life in Egypt, his daughter said. She declined to discuss what her father did for a living, but said he became quite active in Toronto Coptic Orthodox Christian community. He married Erian in 1988 and the couple began raising their three girls there before deciding to immigrate to Canada in 2004. "He brought us here to try and give us the best life possible, and that what he did every single day," Merna Tanious said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.