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A Russian plane carrying more than 224 people crashed in Egypt.
An Airbus A-321 carrying 224 people crashed Saturday morning in the desert of Sinai. More than 100 victims.
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A Russian airliner crashed at around 9am in the morning in the Sinai desert, Egypt.
217 passengers and 7 crew members, all Russians, were on board.
The first elements of the investigation deviate terrorist track.
The aircraft, an Airbus A-321 carrying 224 people, all of Russian nationality, would have crashed in the desert of Sinai announced the Egyptian Prime Minister to Agence France Presse. According to a count of civil aviation, 200 adults, 17 children and 7 crew members traveling on board the aircraft.
According to Reuters citing sources close to the security services in Egypt, the 7K9268 flight of the Russian company Kolavia / Metrojet bound for St. Petersburg, Russia, had disappeared from radar a few minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh in southern Egypt.
The crash site was located in the region of Hasna, in the desert of Sinai and a black box of the aircraft was found. It will perhaps understand how the tragedy occurred.
An emergency landing request
According Flightradar24 aerial surveillance of the site, the airliner was in descent phase before the signal loss. The device down to a speed of 6,000 feet per minute, or about 109 km / h. The Russian news agency Interfax also claims that the aircraft's pilot had asked to change the trajectory of his flight, requesting emergency landing in Cairo. Information obtained from the air traffic control services to Cairo airport.
The Airbus took off at 5:51 pm local time in Sharm el-Sheikh and disappeared from radar over Cyprus soon after told the Russian Interfax an official of the Russian Federal Agency of Aviation, Sergei Izvolsky. The plane "completely destroyed"
According to the Egyptian Prime Minister, the crash site was located and the carcass of the plane could be approximated by the emergency services. Its sources say that the device is "completely destroyed" and depart for now the trail of a missile.
Several planes flew also the area where the plane crashed at the time of the tragedy.
While dozens of emergency vehicles arrived on the scene, Egypt has indicated that the first victims were taken right now from the carcass of the plane. Five bodies of children have already been withdrawn from the wreckage. All the bodies are then transported to Cairo.
According to security officers there, "shouts were heard from inside the carcass", coming from a still inaccessible from the wreckage. Egyptian services are doing everything to help any survivors of the crash was still the source said to Reuters.
Meanwhile, Francois Hollande expressed his condolences to the Russian people on the sidelines of a visit to Mont Saint-Michel. The Russian President has meanwhile declared tomorrow day of national mourning for Russia, and announced the dispatch of Russian rescuers on site.
