MOSCOW (Sputnik) – There are currently no grounds to suggest technical malfunction, cockpit failure or external impacts that caused a Russian airliner crash in Egypt, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said Saturday.
"Rosaviatsiya currently has no reason to believe that the causes of the accident were technical failure or cockpit error or any impact. There is no reason to put forward and discuss any leads until there is reliable information about the circumstances of the accident," the agency said.
All 217 passengers and seven crew members aboard the Airbus-321 flight 9268 died when the passenger jet crashed in the Sinai Peninsula en route from Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, Russian and Egyptian authorities confirmed.
(Sputnik)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his condolences to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov over the Russian passenger plane crash in Egypt in a phone conversation held at the U.S. initiative, Russia's Foreign Ministry said...
ReplyDelete"Also, (the sides) briefly exchanged views on results of the Vienna multilateral talks on the Syrian settlement held on Friday," the ministry said.
On Saturday morning, Kogalymavia airline’s Flight 9268 carrying Russian tourists home aboard an Airbus A321 - en route from the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to the Russian second largest city of St. Petersburg - crashed just 30 minutes after taking off. The plane debris were spotted in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, some 100 kilometres of the city of Arish, There were 217 passengers, including 17 children, and seven crew on board. Latest reports said that there were 214 Russian nationals, three Ukrainians and one Belarusian citizen. According to Egypt’s officials, no-one survived.
Sunday is announced a day of mourning in Russia.
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Russian airliner 'broke up in air' over Sinai...
ReplyDeleteViktor Sorochenko, an official with the Intergovernmental Aviation Committee, made the comments after inspecting the crash site.
He added that it was too early to talk about conclusions.
Meanwhile, Russia has grounded Airbus A321 jets flown by the Kogalymavia airline operating the flight, Interfax news agency reported this morning.
The A321, operated by the Russian airline under the brand name Metrojet, was carrying tourists from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg when it went down soon after daybreak yesterday.
Interfax said the Russian transport regulator Rostransnadzor had told Kogalymavia to stop flying A321 aircraft until the causes of the crash were known............http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1101/738814-sinai-plane-crash/
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