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5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
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JET CRASH NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
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UPDATE-NOVEMBER 02, 2015-05:45AM
180 BODIES FROM THE CRASHED PLANE HAVE BEEN RECOVERED.WHICH MEANS THERES 44 BODIES UNACCOUNTED FOR YET.DID THE BODIES FALL FROM THE PLANE WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK NOW.METROJET SAYS THE SAFETY RECORD ON THE PLANE WAS GOOD.THEY THINK A TERRORIST DID BOMB THE PLANE AND BROUGHT IT DOWN.
RUSSIA EVACUATES BODIES FROM SINAI-LATEST ON CRASH
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Officials search for cause of plane crash over Egypt's Sinai-Associated Press By BRIAN ROHAN and HAMZA HENDAWI-NOV 1,15-YAHOONEWS
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — A Russian passenger airliner crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula 23 minutes after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all 224 people on board, including 25 children.The cause of the crash was not known, but two major European airlines announced they would stop flying over the area for safety reasons after a local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group claimed it "brought down" the aircraft. Russia's transport minister dismissed that claim as not credible.Almost everyone on board the Airbus-A321-200 operated by the Moscow-based Metrojet airline was Russian; Ukraine said four of its citizens were passengers. Russian officials did not give a specific breakdown of the 217 passengers' ages and genders, but said 25 were children. There were seven crew members.A civil aviation ministry statement said the plane's wreckage was found in the Hassana area some 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of the city of el-Arish, in the general area of northern Sinai where Egyptian security forces have for years battled local Islamic militants who in recent months claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group.The ministry said the plane took off from the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh shortly before 6 a.m. for St. Petersburg in Russia and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes after takeoff. Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail toured the crash site and later told a Cairo news conference that 129 bodies had been recovered.Photos from the site released by his office showed the badly damaged sky blue tail of the aircraft, with the Metrojet logo still visible. In the background, heaps of smoldering debris dotted the barren terrain.One photo showed a member of the search team holding the flight recorder, or black box, which Ismail said would be scrutinized as investigators try to determine what caused the crash. Russian investigators were expected to arrive in Egypt on Sunday.Natalya Trukhacheva, identified as the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukachev, said in an interview with Russian state-controlled NTV that her husband had complained about the plane's condition.She said a daughter "called him up before he flew out. He complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired."One Egyptian official, Ayman al-Muqadem of the government's Aviation Incidents Committee, said that before the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers, the pilot had radioed and said the aircraft was experiencing technical problems and that he intended to try and land at the nearest airport.It was impossible to independently confirm whether technical problems were to blame, and no other Egyptian official repeated the claim on Saturday.In a statement on its website, Metrojet said the A321-200 aircraft was in good shape and that the pilot was experienced. It identified the captain as Valery Nemov and said he had 12,000 hours of flying experience, including 3,860 in A321s.Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said officials from Moscow and Cairo were in touch over the incident. The Egyptian officials, he said, had not confirmed the claim by Islamic State militants who said they "brought down a Russian plane over Sinai state with more than 220 Russian crusaders on board." The militant group did not provide any evidence to back up its claim." Based on our contacts with the Egyptian side, the information that the airplane was shot down must not be considered reliable," Sokolov said, according to a report by the Interfax news agency.An English-language statement issued by the office of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi spoke of Russian leader Vladimir Putin commending the efforts made by authorities in Egypt "to uncover the circumstances surrounding the incident."Militants in northern Sinai have not to date shot down commercial airliners or fighter jets. There have been media reports that they have acquired Russian shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles. But these types of missiles can only be effective against low-flying aircraft or helicopters. The Russian airliner was cruising at 31,000 feet when it lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to Egyptian aviation officials.In January 2014, Sinai-based militants claimed to have shot down a military helicopter; Egyptian officials at the time acknowledged the helicopter had crashed, but gave no reason.But two major European airlines — Germany's Lufthansa and Air France — were not taking any chances. Both announced Saturday they would immediately stop flying over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula for safety reasons until the cause of the crash was determined. Their aircraft would take alternate routes to reach destinations in the region.Spokeswomen for the airlines spoke anonymously in line with their respective companies' regulations.Egypt's foreign minister, Sameh Shukri, warned "foreign" countries that he did not identify against taking measures that reflect speculations on the cause of the crash. "That will impact the Egyptian economy and lead to damages. These nations must consider this as well as their relations with Egypt," he said.Friends and relatives of the crash victims were gathering Saturday at a hotel near St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport. Psychologists were meeting with them in a large conference room off the lobby and police kept journalists away. Some left the room occasionally, looking drawn with tear-stained faces.Yulia Zaitseva was one of them. She said her friends, newlyweds Elena Rodina and Alexander Krotov, were on the flight. Both were 33. Zaitseva said Rodina, her friend for 20 years, "really wanted to go to Egypt, though I told her, 'Why the hell do you want to go to Egypt?'""She was a very good friend who was ready to give everything to other people. To lose such a friend is like having your hand cut off," Zaitseva said, adding that Rodina's parents feel "like their lives are over."Russian airlines became infamous for poor safety in the early years following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, which caused severe financial troubles and regulatory disorder. Although accidents have diminished in recent years, crashes persist, many of them blamed on human error.According to Russian news agencies, the flight was chartered by the St. Petersburg-based Brisco tour company. The plane was made in 1997 and has since 2012 been operated by Metrojet.Officers from Russia's top investigative body raided the offices of Metrojet and Brisco on Saturday, searching the premises and questioning employees. Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said agents also took samples of fuel from the airport in the Russian city of Samara where the plane stopped Friday before heading to Sharm el-Sheikh, where it had overnighted.Roughly three million Russian tourists, or nearly a third of all visitors in 2014, come to Egypt every year, mostly to Red Sea resorts in Sinai or in mainland Egypt."It is too premature to detect the impact this will have on tourism. We need to know what happened first," Tourism Ministry spokeswoman Rasha Azazi told The Associated Press.There was no sign of anything unusual at Sharm el-Sheikh's airport just hours after news of the disaster broke. Hundreds of vacationers, mostly from Europe and the Middle East, were arriving and departing. Flights in the afternoon were leaving at the rate of four to five per hour, with lines for international check-in spilling out the main gates.Pavel Moroz, a 30-year-old engineer from Moscow, arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday afternoon on a Metrojet flight. He plans to stay for a week to take a scuba diving course."We heard the news a few hours before leaving and thought for a bit about canceling our trip, but then decided to go anyway and everything was fine," he said as he left the airport.___Hendawi reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Merrit Kennedy and Nour Youssef in Cairo, Irina Titova in St. Petersburg, James Heintz in Moscow, Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.
Could ISIS have PLANTED bomb on jet? Russia plane BROKE UP 31,000ft in air, says officials-TERROR experts believe Islamic State (ISIS) militants may have planted a bomb onboard the doomed jet which crashed killing all 224 people onboard.By Helen Barnett, Nick Gutteridge, Rebecca Perring and Rob Virtue-UPDATED: 10:19, Mon, Nov 2, 2015-EXPRESS
A Russian jet crashed in Egypt could have been downed by an ISIS bomb-It follows the revelation the plane broke up in mid-air over Egypt and there was no distress call from the pilot, making it less likely a mechanical failure was the cause of the disaster.Debris was also scattered over miles of desert, it has been claimed, backing up the theory there was a major explosion.Experts have also pointed out photos of the wreckage show the skin of the jet peeling outwards suggesting a force from inside the plane being responsible. The terror group claimed it shot down the Metrojet aircraft on Saturday but officials insist it was flying too high to be hit by a missile.Russia’s transport minister has dismissed claims an ISIS-affiliate in the region was responsible but French experts are claiming terrorists may have placed the bomb on the plane that crashed over Sinai.An Egyptian official in the civil aviation ministry said it was possible the plane was brought down by an explosive planted onboard.Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's president last night said it was too soon to tell the cause and that an "extensive and complicated technical study" was needed.But Egypt's civil aviation minister Hossam Kamal added: "Up until the crash happened, we were never informed of any faults in the plane, nor did we receive any SOS calls."It comes as tragic pictures emerged of Russia's day of mourning, as ISIS militants released a chilling video of the doomed plane breaking up 31,000 feet in the air, killing all 224 people on board.Heartbreaking photographs have emerged showing emotional Russians as they lay flowers at the Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg and light candles in one of the city's Orthodox church.Mourners light candles and place flowers in central St Petersburg in memory of the dead-The Russian National flag has also been flown half-mast on the top of the Russian government house and Senate building in Kremlin.It comes as ISIS jihadis released a dramatic video, which they claim prove the blood-thirsty terrorists did shoot down the doomed airliner. Chilling footage appears to show the Airbus A-321 jet as it falls through the air, before it seems to explode and engulfs into a ball of smoke and flames.ISIS jihadis insist they took down the airliner, but on Saturday it was claimed that its co-pilot had complained to family that the aircraft's condition "left much to be desired" shortly before the doomed flight took off. Russian aviation officials say the plane "broke up in the air" - but it was too early to say why.Meanwhile, Terror Monitor, an online terrorist monitoring organisation, said it had received a statement from Islamic State militants claiming responsibility for the attack.The group, which watches terrorist groups around the world, tweeted an image of the Arabic statement and wrote: "#IslamicState (#ISIS) terror group claims downing of Russian aircraft in #Sinai."The unverified statement, written in Arabic, says the flight crash was NOT a technical fault, as reported by security sources.It goes on to say that the attack was "in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land". Shocking images also show the mangled wreckage of the doomed airliner and the personal possessions of its passengers strewn across the desert floor. Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail visited the scene yesterday afternoon, at one point being shown the plane's black box recorder by rescue teams.International airlines have announced they will now reroute their flights to avoid flying over the Sinai area in light of the claims. German company Lufthansa, Air France, Emirates, flyDubai and Air Arabia have all said they will actively blacklist the area until a clear explanation is provided of what caused the crash.A spokesman for the Lufthansa said: "We took the decision to avoid the area because the situation and the reasons for the crash were not clear." The carrier is the owner of budget airline Germanwings, which was at the centre of one of the worst tragedies in aviation history when crazed pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed flight 4U9525 into the Alps in March this year. Budget airline easyJet today joined the growing list of companies considering boycotting the area, whilst BA fuelled speculation it may soon follow suit. An easyJet spokesman announced the airline is "actively reviewing" the situation in light of the crash, whilst BA said it would "never fly a route unless it's safe to do so". It was also reported in Russian media this evening that the co-pilot on board the plane had complained to his family about its condition.-In an interview with state-controlled Russian news channel NTV Natalya Trukhacheva, the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukachev, said that the aviator had "complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired"She said her husband made the remarks during a phone call to his daughter in the hours before the flight took off. Egyptian officials initially said that the pilot radioed air traffic control to report a technical problem with the plane just a few minutes into the flight. Russia has announced a criminal inquiry into the airline and earlier police raided its offices to search for clues. But a spokeswoman for Metrojet said: "This plane met all the standards required for our flights. If it had had any technical faults that would have meant it couldn't perform this flight it would not have flown." Last month Moscow launched a bombing campaign against ISIS, which controls vast swathes of Syria and has forced thousands of people to flee the country.Vladimir Putin's bid to wipe out the twisted terror organisation has been so successful that almost a million Syrians are elected to return to their homeland. The translated statement from ISIS read: "The fighters of the Islamic State were able to down a Russian plane over Sinai province that was carrying over 220 Russian crusaders. "They were all killed, thanks be to God."News agency AFP has also reported ISIS has claimed responsiblity for the downing of the jet.The agency reported the statement read: "The soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane in Sinai."Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her Facebook page that Russian Embassy personnel in Egypt are working to clarify the situation.The Russian plane was flying from the popular Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm El-Sheikh to the Russian city of St Petersburg.All 224 people onboard the aircraft are believed to be dead.More than 150 bodies, including five children, have already been pulled from the wreckage.There were 217 passengers, including 17 children on the flight.There were also 138 women and 62 men. Three were Ukrainian with the rest Russian.The jet, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, also known as MetroJet, was an Airbus A-321 and is said to have fallen vertically, which led to it bursting into flames.Russia's transport minister said claims terrorists caused the Russian plane to crash "can't be considered accurate", though security officials are working on clarification.Russia declared Sunday a day of mourning.Vladimir Putin has launched a severe air strike campaign against Islamic State in Syria over the last couple of weeks.Russian security forces claim to have destroyed 1,600 ISIS targets.Egypt’s North Sinai is home to a two-year-old Islamist insurgency and militants who support Islamic State have killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police in recent months.Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Mohamed Hossam Kemal said it was "too soon to determine the cause". It is believed most of the passengers travelling on the plane were Russian tourists. There are no reports of British nationals on board.The first pictures of the Russian plane victims have started to emerge, including young children.Russia’s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev tweeted: "I am deeply shocked by the plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula. The tragedy will be thoroughly investigated, the families will receive aid."David Cameron tweeted his condolences to the victims of the Russia plane crash.He wrote: "My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims of the Russian plane crash in Egypt and the Bucharest nightclub fire."Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed officials to go to the crash site to investigate.A statement from the prime minister's office said PM Sherif Ismail had formed a cabinet level crisis committee to deal with the crash.Russia's top Investigative Committee has launched a case against airline Kogalymavia under an article regulating "violation of rules of flights and preparations for them". Initial reports suggested contact had been made with the passenger plane after it went missing but later Egyptian authorities confirmed the tragic news.Russian news sources originally said the captain reported technical faults soon after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh and asked for a route change.However, this was later discounted. Latest reports suggest the fight 7K9268 went off radar 23 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh at 5.51am.Mike Vivian, former head of flight operations at the CAA warned it's a "popular route with Britons".He said: "A321 is a very good aircraft and it has a good safety record."I would be surprised if the aircraft was a factor. It is a small airline and it is difficult to know who the operator was as there are multiple. It looks as if the airline flies only domestic routes in Russia but does go down to Turkey and Egypt."The plane operator Kogalymavia is also known as MetroJet.
First bodies delivered to Russia after Egypt plane crash-Reuters By Pyotr Kovalyov-NOV 2,15-YAHOONEWS
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - The first bodies from a plane crash in Egypt in which all 224 passengers, most of them Russians, died over the weekend arrived in St Petersburg early on Monday morning aboard a Russian government plane.The crashed Airbus A321 plane, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, was carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg when it crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday morning.Russian officials have said the plane likely broke up in mid-air but have stressed that it is too early to draw conclusions from this. President Vladimir Putin declared Sunday a national day of mourning.Russian news agencies reported that a first Il-76 Emergency Situations Ministry plane flew into St Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport a little before 6 a.m. local time, carrying 144 bodies.The ministry said the next plane carrying bodies would leave Cairo on Monday evening for St Petersburg. On arrival, the first bodies were loaded onto stretchers and carried into a large white lorry waiting on the runway at Pulkovo Airport.A Reuters photographer then saw the white lorry leaving the airport, escorted by police cars. It was heading for a St Petersburg morgue, where the bodies were to be identified.The identification process was meant to start around 11 a.m. local time.At Pulkovo Airport on Sunday, grieving Russians piled flowers high in memory of their dead compatriots. Mourners in Moscow arranged candles to spell out 7K-9268, the number of the flight that crashed.Russia and other former Soviet republics have poor air safety records, notably on domestic flights. Some accidents have been blamed on the use of aging aircraft, but industry experts point to other problems, such as poor crew training and lax government controls.St Petersburg authorities have decided that official mourning events will last until Tuesday in Russia's second city.(Writing by Alexander Winning; Editing by Christian Lowe)
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METRO JET-A321-pic-aircollection.orgISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
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JET CRASH NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
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UPDATE-NOVEMBER 02, 2015-05:45AM
180 BODIES FROM THE CRASHED PLANE HAVE BEEN RECOVERED.WHICH MEANS THERES 44 BODIES UNACCOUNTED FOR YET.DID THE BODIES FALL FROM THE PLANE WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK NOW.METROJET SAYS THE SAFETY RECORD ON THE PLANE WAS GOOD.THEY THINK A TERRORIST DID BOMB THE PLANE AND BROUGHT IT DOWN.
RUSSIA EVACUATES BODIES FROM SINAI-LATEST ON CRASH
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Officials search for cause of plane crash over Egypt's Sinai-Associated Press By BRIAN ROHAN and HAMZA HENDAWI-NOV 1,15-YAHOONEWS
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — A Russian passenger airliner crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula 23 minutes after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all 224 people on board, including 25 children.The cause of the crash was not known, but two major European airlines announced they would stop flying over the area for safety reasons after a local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group claimed it "brought down" the aircraft. Russia's transport minister dismissed that claim as not credible.Almost everyone on board the Airbus-A321-200 operated by the Moscow-based Metrojet airline was Russian; Ukraine said four of its citizens were passengers. Russian officials did not give a specific breakdown of the 217 passengers' ages and genders, but said 25 were children. There were seven crew members.A civil aviation ministry statement said the plane's wreckage was found in the Hassana area some 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of the city of el-Arish, in the general area of northern Sinai where Egyptian security forces have for years battled local Islamic militants who in recent months claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group.The ministry said the plane took off from the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh shortly before 6 a.m. for St. Petersburg in Russia and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes after takeoff. Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail toured the crash site and later told a Cairo news conference that 129 bodies had been recovered.Photos from the site released by his office showed the badly damaged sky blue tail of the aircraft, with the Metrojet logo still visible. In the background, heaps of smoldering debris dotted the barren terrain.One photo showed a member of the search team holding the flight recorder, or black box, which Ismail said would be scrutinized as investigators try to determine what caused the crash. Russian investigators were expected to arrive in Egypt on Sunday.Natalya Trukhacheva, identified as the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukachev, said in an interview with Russian state-controlled NTV that her husband had complained about the plane's condition.She said a daughter "called him up before he flew out. He complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired."One Egyptian official, Ayman al-Muqadem of the government's Aviation Incidents Committee, said that before the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers, the pilot had radioed and said the aircraft was experiencing technical problems and that he intended to try and land at the nearest airport.It was impossible to independently confirm whether technical problems were to blame, and no other Egyptian official repeated the claim on Saturday.In a statement on its website, Metrojet said the A321-200 aircraft was in good shape and that the pilot was experienced. It identified the captain as Valery Nemov and said he had 12,000 hours of flying experience, including 3,860 in A321s.Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said officials from Moscow and Cairo were in touch over the incident. The Egyptian officials, he said, had not confirmed the claim by Islamic State militants who said they "brought down a Russian plane over Sinai state with more than 220 Russian crusaders on board." The militant group did not provide any evidence to back up its claim." Based on our contacts with the Egyptian side, the information that the airplane was shot down must not be considered reliable," Sokolov said, according to a report by the Interfax news agency.An English-language statement issued by the office of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi spoke of Russian leader Vladimir Putin commending the efforts made by authorities in Egypt "to uncover the circumstances surrounding the incident."Militants in northern Sinai have not to date shot down commercial airliners or fighter jets. There have been media reports that they have acquired Russian shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles. But these types of missiles can only be effective against low-flying aircraft or helicopters. The Russian airliner was cruising at 31,000 feet when it lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to Egyptian aviation officials.In January 2014, Sinai-based militants claimed to have shot down a military helicopter; Egyptian officials at the time acknowledged the helicopter had crashed, but gave no reason.But two major European airlines — Germany's Lufthansa and Air France — were not taking any chances. Both announced Saturday they would immediately stop flying over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula for safety reasons until the cause of the crash was determined. Their aircraft would take alternate routes to reach destinations in the region.Spokeswomen for the airlines spoke anonymously in line with their respective companies' regulations.Egypt's foreign minister, Sameh Shukri, warned "foreign" countries that he did not identify against taking measures that reflect speculations on the cause of the crash. "That will impact the Egyptian economy and lead to damages. These nations must consider this as well as their relations with Egypt," he said.Friends and relatives of the crash victims were gathering Saturday at a hotel near St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport. Psychologists were meeting with them in a large conference room off the lobby and police kept journalists away. Some left the room occasionally, looking drawn with tear-stained faces.Yulia Zaitseva was one of them. She said her friends, newlyweds Elena Rodina and Alexander Krotov, were on the flight. Both were 33. Zaitseva said Rodina, her friend for 20 years, "really wanted to go to Egypt, though I told her, 'Why the hell do you want to go to Egypt?'""She was a very good friend who was ready to give everything to other people. To lose such a friend is like having your hand cut off," Zaitseva said, adding that Rodina's parents feel "like their lives are over."Russian airlines became infamous for poor safety in the early years following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, which caused severe financial troubles and regulatory disorder. Although accidents have diminished in recent years, crashes persist, many of them blamed on human error.According to Russian news agencies, the flight was chartered by the St. Petersburg-based Brisco tour company. The plane was made in 1997 and has since 2012 been operated by Metrojet.Officers from Russia's top investigative body raided the offices of Metrojet and Brisco on Saturday, searching the premises and questioning employees. Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said agents also took samples of fuel from the airport in the Russian city of Samara where the plane stopped Friday before heading to Sharm el-Sheikh, where it had overnighted.Roughly three million Russian tourists, or nearly a third of all visitors in 2014, come to Egypt every year, mostly to Red Sea resorts in Sinai or in mainland Egypt."It is too premature to detect the impact this will have on tourism. We need to know what happened first," Tourism Ministry spokeswoman Rasha Azazi told The Associated Press.There was no sign of anything unusual at Sharm el-Sheikh's airport just hours after news of the disaster broke. Hundreds of vacationers, mostly from Europe and the Middle East, were arriving and departing. Flights in the afternoon were leaving at the rate of four to five per hour, with lines for international check-in spilling out the main gates.Pavel Moroz, a 30-year-old engineer from Moscow, arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday afternoon on a Metrojet flight. He plans to stay for a week to take a scuba diving course."We heard the news a few hours before leaving and thought for a bit about canceling our trip, but then decided to go anyway and everything was fine," he said as he left the airport.___Hendawi reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Merrit Kennedy and Nour Youssef in Cairo, Irina Titova in St. Petersburg, James Heintz in Moscow, Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.
Could ISIS have PLANTED bomb on jet? Russia plane BROKE UP 31,000ft in air, says officials-TERROR experts believe Islamic State (ISIS) militants may have planted a bomb onboard the doomed jet which crashed killing all 224 people onboard.By Helen Barnett, Nick Gutteridge, Rebecca Perring and Rob Virtue-UPDATED: 10:19, Mon, Nov 2, 2015-EXPRESS
A Russian jet crashed in Egypt could have been downed by an ISIS bomb-It follows the revelation the plane broke up in mid-air over Egypt and there was no distress call from the pilot, making it less likely a mechanical failure was the cause of the disaster.Debris was also scattered over miles of desert, it has been claimed, backing up the theory there was a major explosion.Experts have also pointed out photos of the wreckage show the skin of the jet peeling outwards suggesting a force from inside the plane being responsible. The terror group claimed it shot down the Metrojet aircraft on Saturday but officials insist it was flying too high to be hit by a missile.Russia’s transport minister has dismissed claims an ISIS-affiliate in the region was responsible but French experts are claiming terrorists may have placed the bomb on the plane that crashed over Sinai.An Egyptian official in the civil aviation ministry said it was possible the plane was brought down by an explosive planted onboard.Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's president last night said it was too soon to tell the cause and that an "extensive and complicated technical study" was needed.But Egypt's civil aviation minister Hossam Kamal added: "Up until the crash happened, we were never informed of any faults in the plane, nor did we receive any SOS calls."It comes as tragic pictures emerged of Russia's day of mourning, as ISIS militants released a chilling video of the doomed plane breaking up 31,000 feet in the air, killing all 224 people on board.Heartbreaking photographs have emerged showing emotional Russians as they lay flowers at the Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg and light candles in one of the city's Orthodox church.Mourners light candles and place flowers in central St Petersburg in memory of the dead-The Russian National flag has also been flown half-mast on the top of the Russian government house and Senate building in Kremlin.It comes as ISIS jihadis released a dramatic video, which they claim prove the blood-thirsty terrorists did shoot down the doomed airliner. Chilling footage appears to show the Airbus A-321 jet as it falls through the air, before it seems to explode and engulfs into a ball of smoke and flames.ISIS jihadis insist they took down the airliner, but on Saturday it was claimed that its co-pilot had complained to family that the aircraft's condition "left much to be desired" shortly before the doomed flight took off. Russian aviation officials say the plane "broke up in the air" - but it was too early to say why.Meanwhile, Terror Monitor, an online terrorist monitoring organisation, said it had received a statement from Islamic State militants claiming responsibility for the attack.The group, which watches terrorist groups around the world, tweeted an image of the Arabic statement and wrote: "#IslamicState (#ISIS) terror group claims downing of Russian aircraft in #Sinai."The unverified statement, written in Arabic, says the flight crash was NOT a technical fault, as reported by security sources.It goes on to say that the attack was "in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land". Shocking images also show the mangled wreckage of the doomed airliner and the personal possessions of its passengers strewn across the desert floor. Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail visited the scene yesterday afternoon, at one point being shown the plane's black box recorder by rescue teams.International airlines have announced they will now reroute their flights to avoid flying over the Sinai area in light of the claims. German company Lufthansa, Air France, Emirates, flyDubai and Air Arabia have all said they will actively blacklist the area until a clear explanation is provided of what caused the crash.A spokesman for the Lufthansa said: "We took the decision to avoid the area because the situation and the reasons for the crash were not clear." The carrier is the owner of budget airline Germanwings, which was at the centre of one of the worst tragedies in aviation history when crazed pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed flight 4U9525 into the Alps in March this year. Budget airline easyJet today joined the growing list of companies considering boycotting the area, whilst BA fuelled speculation it may soon follow suit. An easyJet spokesman announced the airline is "actively reviewing" the situation in light of the crash, whilst BA said it would "never fly a route unless it's safe to do so". It was also reported in Russian media this evening that the co-pilot on board the plane had complained to his family about its condition.-In an interview with state-controlled Russian news channel NTV Natalya Trukhacheva, the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukachev, said that the aviator had "complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired"She said her husband made the remarks during a phone call to his daughter in the hours before the flight took off. Egyptian officials initially said that the pilot radioed air traffic control to report a technical problem with the plane just a few minutes into the flight. Russia has announced a criminal inquiry into the airline and earlier police raided its offices to search for clues. But a spokeswoman for Metrojet said: "This plane met all the standards required for our flights. If it had had any technical faults that would have meant it couldn't perform this flight it would not have flown." Last month Moscow launched a bombing campaign against ISIS, which controls vast swathes of Syria and has forced thousands of people to flee the country.Vladimir Putin's bid to wipe out the twisted terror organisation has been so successful that almost a million Syrians are elected to return to their homeland. The translated statement from ISIS read: "The fighters of the Islamic State were able to down a Russian plane over Sinai province that was carrying over 220 Russian crusaders. "They were all killed, thanks be to God."News agency AFP has also reported ISIS has claimed responsiblity for the downing of the jet.The agency reported the statement read: "The soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane in Sinai."Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her Facebook page that Russian Embassy personnel in Egypt are working to clarify the situation.The Russian plane was flying from the popular Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm El-Sheikh to the Russian city of St Petersburg.All 224 people onboard the aircraft are believed to be dead.More than 150 bodies, including five children, have already been pulled from the wreckage.There were 217 passengers, including 17 children on the flight.There were also 138 women and 62 men. Three were Ukrainian with the rest Russian.The jet, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, also known as MetroJet, was an Airbus A-321 and is said to have fallen vertically, which led to it bursting into flames.Russia's transport minister said claims terrorists caused the Russian plane to crash "can't be considered accurate", though security officials are working on clarification.Russia declared Sunday a day of mourning.Vladimir Putin has launched a severe air strike campaign against Islamic State in Syria over the last couple of weeks.Russian security forces claim to have destroyed 1,600 ISIS targets.Egypt’s North Sinai is home to a two-year-old Islamist insurgency and militants who support Islamic State have killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police in recent months.Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Mohamed Hossam Kemal said it was "too soon to determine the cause". It is believed most of the passengers travelling on the plane were Russian tourists. There are no reports of British nationals on board.The first pictures of the Russian plane victims have started to emerge, including young children.Russia’s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev tweeted: "I am deeply shocked by the plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula. The tragedy will be thoroughly investigated, the families will receive aid."David Cameron tweeted his condolences to the victims of the Russia plane crash.He wrote: "My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims of the Russian plane crash in Egypt and the Bucharest nightclub fire."Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed officials to go to the crash site to investigate.A statement from the prime minister's office said PM Sherif Ismail had formed a cabinet level crisis committee to deal with the crash.Russia's top Investigative Committee has launched a case against airline Kogalymavia under an article regulating "violation of rules of flights and preparations for them". Initial reports suggested contact had been made with the passenger plane after it went missing but later Egyptian authorities confirmed the tragic news.Russian news sources originally said the captain reported technical faults soon after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh and asked for a route change.However, this was later discounted. Latest reports suggest the fight 7K9268 went off radar 23 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh at 5.51am.Mike Vivian, former head of flight operations at the CAA warned it's a "popular route with Britons".He said: "A321 is a very good aircraft and it has a good safety record."I would be surprised if the aircraft was a factor. It is a small airline and it is difficult to know who the operator was as there are multiple. It looks as if the airline flies only domestic routes in Russia but does go down to Turkey and Egypt."The plane operator Kogalymavia is also known as MetroJet.
First bodies delivered to Russia after Egypt plane crash-Reuters By Pyotr Kovalyov-NOV 2,15-YAHOONEWS
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - The first bodies from a plane crash in Egypt in which all 224 passengers, most of them Russians, died over the weekend arrived in St Petersburg early on Monday morning aboard a Russian government plane.The crashed Airbus A321 plane, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, was carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg when it crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday morning.Russian officials have said the plane likely broke up in mid-air but have stressed that it is too early to draw conclusions from this. President Vladimir Putin declared Sunday a national day of mourning.Russian news agencies reported that a first Il-76 Emergency Situations Ministry plane flew into St Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport a little before 6 a.m. local time, carrying 144 bodies.The ministry said the next plane carrying bodies would leave Cairo on Monday evening for St Petersburg. On arrival, the first bodies were loaded onto stretchers and carried into a large white lorry waiting on the runway at Pulkovo Airport.A Reuters photographer then saw the white lorry leaving the airport, escorted by police cars. It was heading for a St Petersburg morgue, where the bodies were to be identified.The identification process was meant to start around 11 a.m. local time.At Pulkovo Airport on Sunday, grieving Russians piled flowers high in memory of their dead compatriots. Mourners in Moscow arranged candles to spell out 7K-9268, the number of the flight that crashed.Russia and other former Soviet republics have poor air safety records, notably on domestic flights. Some accidents have been blamed on the use of aging aircraft, but industry experts point to other problems, such as poor crew training and lax government controls.St Petersburg authorities have decided that official mourning events will last until Tuesday in Russia's second city.(Writing by Alexander Winning; Editing by Christian Lowe)
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