Russian plane with 224 people onboard crashes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula

[Hindustani78]

Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s top investigative body, has opened an investigation into the crash of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula for possible violations of flight safety procedures.

Committee spokesman Sergei Markin made the announcement in a statement on Saturday.

An Egyptian aviation official says the pilot of Metrojet Flight 7K9268 had reported technical difficulties early Saturday and planned an emergency landing at the nearest airport before losing contact with Egyptian air traffic controllers and crashing.

1615 IST

An Egyptian aviation official says the pilot of the Russian airliner that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula had reported technical difficulties before losing contact with air traffic controllers.

Ayman al-Muqadem, a member of the Aviation Incidents Committee, said the pilot had reported his intention to attempt to land at the nearest airport.

The aircraft was carrying 214 Russian passengers and three Ukrainians, the Egyptian cabinet said in a statement.

Out of the total 217 passengers, 138 were women, 62 men and 17 were children, the cabinet statement

1800 IST

Several Egyptian military and security officials say there are no survivors from the Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people that crashed into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

The officials all spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Aviation experts have reached the crash site near the city of el-Arish.

Officials say all the victims in Saturday’s Metrojet plane crash were Russian citizens.

A statement carried by Egypt’s state-run MENA news agency says the plane took off from Sinai’s Sharm el-Sheikh, a popular destination for Russian tourists, at 5.51 a.m. (local time) on Saturday and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes after takeoff.

Egyptian emergency workers unload bodies of victims from the crash of a Russian aircraft carrying 217 passengers and 7 crew members over the Sinai peninsula from a police helicopter to ambulances at Kabrit airport in Suez, some 20 miles north of Suez, Egypt, on Saturday.

Egyptian soldiers stand guard as rescuers carry bodies of victims of a plane crash from a civil police helicopter to ambulances at Kabrit airport in Suez. Egypt.

The A321 is a 185-seat medium-haul jet in service since 1994, with more than 1,100 in operation worldwide and a good safety record.

It is a highly automated aircraft relying on computers to help pilots stay within safe flying limits.

Today's crash is the second fatal accident involving this variant of the A320 jetliner family, according to data from the Flight Safety Foundation.

 

[deepak.chauhan2312]

may their souls rest in peace. Russia will avenge her people

 

[SiCiSi]

Oh, superboy... superboy....

lol like you know anything about military conflicts.

Go back to your video games son.

 

[Hell NO]

if they can hit egyption navy its easy to shot down a-321 huge target

Apaches are armed and loaded with countermeasures while civilian planes are toothless

A civilian aircraft flying at 30000 feet is an impossible target for a man pad.
Firing a kornet at a toothless patrol boat is a waste of missile.

 

[United]

So if it's true do you that support that? Make up your mind you support ISIS or UAE gov't? Or you only like ISIS's actions when it suits you but when their agenda is also applied to Arab states you begin condemning them and calling them fanatics...?

 

[Hindustani78]

Russian aviation regulator says no grounds yet for any theory about airliner crash: RIA| Reuters

Russian aviation regulator Rosaviatsia said on Saturday that it didn't yet see any reason to blame the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt on a technical failure, an error by the crew or external actions, RIA news agency reported.

"Until there is reliable evidence about the circumstances of what happened, there is no sense in putting forward and discussing any versions," RIA quoted Rosaviatsia as saying in a statement.

(Reporting By Jason Bush; Editing by Toby Chopra)

A civilian aircraft flying at 30000 feet is an impossible target for a man pad.
Firing a kornet at a toothless patrol boat is a waste of missile.

Claims that terrorists shot down Russian airliner inaccurate: transport minister to Ifax| Reuters
Claims that a Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt was shot down by terrorists "can't be considered accurate", Russia's Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov told the Interfax news agency on Saturday.

"Now in various media there is assorted information that the Russian passenger (plane)... was supposedly shot down by an anti-aircraft missile, fired by terrorists. This information can't be considered accurate," Interfax quoted him as saying.

 

[Total Destruction]

 

[Total Destruction]

 

[Hindustani78]

lol like you know anything about military conflicts.

Go back to your video games son.

Russia watchdog previously found safety breaches at crash airline: Ifax| Reuters

Russian state transport regulator Rostransnadzor found violations when it last conducted a routine flight safety inspection of Kogalymavia, whose jet crashed in Egypt, Interfax news agency quoted the watchdog as saying.

But after the inspection, which took place in March 2014, the airline remedied the breaches within the deadlines it had been set, Interfax reported.


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August 2014
European Union imposes new sanctions on Russia over the country's efforts to destabilize Ukraine.

The European Union is imposing further sanctions on Russia over the country's efforts to destabilize Ukraine. The measures gained added impetus after the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that Western officials blame on pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Russia denies the charge.


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2014-08-06
Air France-KLM Group and Deutsche Lufthansa AG would suffer most from curbs on flights across Siberia in retaliation for European Union sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, an analysis of networks shows.

Of the 1,600 flights operated by 39 carriers across the region east of the Ural mountains in the past week, about half were provided by 14 EU carriers, according to data supplied to Bloomberg News

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Initial examination shows plane crashed due to technical fault: sources| Reuters
Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:59am EDT

An initial examination of the crash site showed that a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula due to a technical fault, security sources in North Sinai said.

About 150 bodies, including burnt corpses, were found in a 5 km (3.1 miles) radius from the crashed aircraft, the sources said. The plane fell vertically, which led to large parts of it burning, the sources added.

 

[Basel]

RIP to departed souls.

 

[United]

Breaking News: Paris Air France and Lufthansa said Saturday they will stop flying over Egypt's Sinai peninsula after a Russian passenger plane went down in the area with the loss of all 224 people on board.

The airlines said they were taking the measure as a precaution while the cause of the Russian crash was investigated.

'All passengers dead' as Russian airliner crashes in Egypt's Sinai | GulfNews.com


President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the death of those on board the Russian passenger plane that crashed in Sinai, Egypt, WAM reported.

Shaikh Khalifa expressed his heartfelt condolences to the Russian president and the families of the victims of this tragic incident.

His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum , Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, have also sent similar cables of condolences to the Russian president.

https://twitter.com/x/status/660434210629558273

 

[baqai]

the first thing which came to my mind when i heard the news was "shot down" only recently russia was allegedly blamed to have shot down a passenger plane which it says the rebels did, the motive which came to my mind was "revenge" ... i hope my theories are wrong and it was a technical glitch .... good thing in this devastating situation is that it crashed on the ground and it won't be problem to get blackbox and figure out the reason for crash

 

[SiCiSi]

Oh Oh, Sinai ISIS uploaded grainy cell phone footage of moment plane was shot down....Won't post out of respect for victims but it appears to be not too big of a jet and definitely is shot down. We can't know if this footage is from something else or edited clip of a mix of several videos.

If true, this provides us with an excellent reason test our Novichok weapons on live targets.

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

Oh Oh, Sinai ISIS uploaded grainy cell phone footage of moment plane was shot down....Won't post out of respect for victims but it appears to be not too big of a jet and definitely is shot down. We can't know if this footage is from something else or edited clip of a mix of several videos.

sorry to disappoint you but it was not a terrorist who shot down the plane your friends are just looking for anything to get back to the news after everyone nearly forget who they are

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

I doubt they care for attention, like I said ISIS is now in position of leadership and there's no going back. If you knew how to read I already stated video is fake created by fans or other random people.

i was talking about isil in sainai they did not make the news in months