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| Russian passenger plane crashes in Egypt’s Sinai - latest | Russian passenger plane crashes in Egypt’s Sinai - latest |
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| 9.53am GMT09:53 | |
| The Israeli military has been assisting Egypt in the aerial search for the plane, and offered further assistance to its neighbouring, according to Israeli Defence Force spokesman Peter Lerner. | |
| Since this am the #IDF assisted with arial surveillance in the efforts to locate Russian airplane #7K9628 that lost contact over Sinai . | |
| The IDF has offered continued assistance to both #Russia and #Egypt if required. #7K9628 | |
| 9.45am GMT09:45 | |
| Alec Luhn, correspondent for the Guardian in Moscow writes: | |
| The Russian embassy in Egypt has said all those on board were Russians, Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.The airplane was put into service 18 years ago. Aging planes have been involved in previous Russian air tragedies, such as a 2011 crash in Petrozavodsk that killed 47. | |
| Smaller Russian carriers often buy or lease older planes. | |
| The Russian authorities have been attempting to reduce the number of small air carriers to improve safety in recent years. | |
| Russia had the most air crash casualties of any country in 2011 due to several high-profile crashes, including one that killed a large part of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv hockey team. | |
| Updated at 9.46am GMT | |
| 9.44am GMT09:44 | |
| Egyptian media are reporting that the Russian plane crashed due to “technical failure”. | |
| Ayman Al-Mokadem, the Egyptian pilot appointed to invetigate the cause of the crash, told Ahram Online that the Metrojet pilot had made contact with aviation authorities and asked to land at the nearest airport. | |
| He speculated that the plane had been attempting an emergency landing at Al-Arish’s airport in North Sinai. | |
| Egyptian authorities have been very quick to stress that terrorism is not the cause of the crash, but we have yet to get independent confirmation that technical failure was behind the incident. | |
| Updated at 9.44am GMT | |
| 9.36am GMT09:36 | |
| There were several other planes in the airspace in Sinai peninsula, according to Flight Radar. | |
| Security officials have been telling local media that they do not believe there is any indication that the plane was shot down by Islamist militants, whom the state has been battling in central Sinai for several years. | |
| Airspace over Sinai Peninsula when #7K9268 disappeared from Flightradar24 at 04:13 UTC pic.twitter.com/H7kJk9qL6r | |
| 9.32am GMT09:32 | |
| This Metrojet plane is believed to be the one which has crashed in Sinai - the Airbus A321 with a tail number of EI-ETJ. | |
| The picture shows the plane on the airstrip of Domodedovo International Airport on October 20th - so it’s not from today’s incident. | |
| Updated at 9.33am GMT | |
| 9.27am GMT09:27 | |
| Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry confirms plane has crashed and has been located | |
| “Military planes have discovered the wreckage of the plane,” a statement said, confirming it was located in the mountainous Hassana area, south of Arish, in central Sinai. | |
| The plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet when it vanished from radar screens, the ministry said in a statement to Egypt’s MENA news agency. | |
| Egyptian government says 50 ambulances sent to the scene of the air crash in Central Sinai. Bodies will be to a Cairo. | |
| Updated at 9.28am GMT | |
| 9.13am GMT09:13 | 9.13am GMT09:13 |
| Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has posted on her Facebook wall that the Russian embassy in Egypt is monitoring the situation. | Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has posted on her Facebook wall that the Russian embassy in Egypt is monitoring the situation. |
| “As soon as further information will be received, it would be provided to the media,” she writes. | “As soon as further information will be received, it would be provided to the media,” she writes. |
| Updated at 9.34am GMT | |
| 9.10am GMT09:10 | 9.10am GMT09:10 |
| Russian passenger plane had 17 children on board | Russian passenger plane had 17 children on board |
| Seventeen children were among the passengers on the Russian jet, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted a source in the Russian aviation authority as saying. | Seventeen children were among the passengers on the Russian jet, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted a source in the Russian aviation authority as saying. |
| Also on board were 200 adult passengers and 7 crew members. | Also on board were 200 adult passengers and 7 crew members. |
| 9.08am GMT09:08 | 9.08am GMT09:08 |
| Two flight tracking websites, Plane Finder and Flight Radar, have been looking at the flight data to track the moment of the crash. | Two flight tracking websites, Plane Finder and Flight Radar, have been looking at the flight data to track the moment of the crash. |
| Speed / Alt plotted on graph. Speed (purple) drops off before we lost contact at 04:13:10z #7K9268 pic.twitter.com/yhJSZ1Dclw | Speed / Alt plotted on graph. Speed (purple) drops off before we lost contact at 04:13:10z #7K9268 pic.twitter.com/yhJSZ1Dclw |
| Flight #7K9268 was descending with about 6000 feet per minute just before signal was lost https://t.co/RlcJTpDHwI pic.twitter.com/T4Wq78bhyi | Flight #7K9268 was descending with about 6000 feet per minute just before signal was lost https://t.co/RlcJTpDHwI pic.twitter.com/T4Wq78bhyi |
| 9.07am GMT09:07 | 9.07am GMT09:07 |
| Russian airliner crashes in Egypt with more than 200 on board | |
| Good morning, we’re following the latest developments after a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. | Good morning, we’re following the latest developments after a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. |
| Here are the facts we have so far: | Here are the facts we have so far: |
| Updated at 9.33am GMT |