"Our specialists who are taking part in the investigation along with an Egyptian commission have reached the crash site. It is a large area of more than 20 square kilometers. It is an elongated ellipse about four kilometers wide and some eight kilometers long. All indicates that the plane broke down in midair at a high altitude," he told the Rossiya-24 television channel.
He said that deciphering of the plane’s flight recorders had not yet started.
An A321 passenger jet of Russia’s Kogalymavia air carrier (flight 9268) bound to St. Petersburg crashed on October 31 some 30 minutes after the takeoff from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh. It felld down 100 kilometers south of the administrative center of North Sinai Governorate, the city of Al-Arish. The plane was carrying 217 passengers and seven crew members. There were four Ukrainian and one Belarusian nationals among the passengers. None survived.
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1/11/15
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Terrorism Not Ruled Out as Potential Cause of A321 Crash - (Kremlin) ....
ReplyDeleteWe cannot to rule out any version of the crash of the Russian airliner in Egypt, Kremlin spokesman told journalists.
"We cannot say what version of a possible cause of the crash will be a basis of the investigation," Dmitry Peskov said asked by reporters about the possibility of the terrorist attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is constantly being briefed with information on the A-321 passenger jet that crashed on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula over the weekend, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
“The volume of work completed has been huge, and the president has naturally been receiving all information on a constant basis of what has happened and what his happening right now,” Peskov told journalists.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, who has just returned from Egypt, to receive the latest updates on the fatal crash of the A-321 passenger jet that crashed on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
“The president will most likely meet for an hour with Transport Minister Sokolov, who is also heading the state committee on the plane. Early in the morning, Sokolov returned from Egypt and will give the president his report on the catastrophe,” Peskov said.
A Russian Kogalymavia Airbus A-321 passenger airliner, with 217 passengers and seven crew members on board, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on Saturday, leaving no survivors.
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