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ISAIAH 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 01,2015-12:00AM
Russian airliner with 224 aboard crashes in Egypt's Sinai, all killed-Reuters By Yusri Mohammed and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan-OCT 31,15-YAHOONEWS
ISMAILIA, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) - A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard.A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt, Sinai Province, said in a statement it had brought down the plane "in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land", but Russia's Transport Minister told Interfax news agency the claim "can't be considered accurate".The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said."I now see a tragic scene," an Egyptian security officer at the site told Reuters by telephone. "A lot of dead on the ground and many who died whilst strapped to their seats."The plane split into two, a small part on the tail end that burned and a larger part that crashed into a rockface. We have extracted at least 100 bodies and the rest are still inside," the officer, who requested anonymity, said.Both black boxes of the plane had been found, Mohamed Hossam Kemal, the civil aviation minister, told a news conference.Kemal said communications between the plane and air traffic control before the crash had been normal and that nothing irregular had occurred before the accident."The plane did not request a change of route," he said.Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail also told the news conference that there did not appear to be any unusual activity behind the crash but the facts would not be clear until further investigations had been carried out.Ismail said 129 bodies had so far been removed and the chances of finding survivors were now near-impossible.Bodies were being transported to various hospitals with 34 arriving in the Zeinhom morgue in Cairo early in the evening.Islamic State, in a statement on Twitter, said it had brought down the aircraft.Sinai is the scene of an insurgency by militants close to Islamic State, who have killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police and have also attacked Western targets in recent months. Much of the Sinai is a restricted military zone.Militants in the area are not believed to have missiles capable of hitting a plane at 30,000 feet. Islamic State websites have in the past claimed responsibility for actions that have not been conclusively attributed to them.Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, launched air raids against opposition groups in Syria including Islamic State on Sept. 30.Two of Europe's largest airlines, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM , said they would avoid flying over the Sinai peninsula while awaiting an explanation on the cause of the crash.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promised Russia's President Vladimir Putin he would allow Russian experts to join the investigation.The prime minister said a Russian team would arrive in Egypt later on Saturday night. The country is also preparing to receive the families of the victims.-TELEPHONES RINGING-Putin declared a day of national mourning for Sunday. The passengers included 214 Russians and three Ukrainians.A middle-aged man in a gray overcoat, who gave his first name as Nayeel, wept as he spoke to reporters as he came out of a hotel near St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, where a special reception center has been set up for families of the victims.He said that his wife had been on the plane."At six am she sent me a text message saying: I’m boarding. God be with me.’ And that was it,” he said. The man said the rest of the family had already returned from a holiday in Egypt, but his wife had opted to stay on, which is why she was on the Saturday morning flight.The A321 is a medium-haul jet in service since 1994, with over 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.Airbus said the A321 was built in 1997 and had been operated by Metrojet since 2012. It had flown 56,000 hours in nearly 21,000 flights and was powered by engines from International Aero Engines consortium, which includes United Technologies unit Pratt & Whitney and Germany's MTU Aero Engines .Emergency services and aviation specialists searched the wreckage for any clues to the crash. Wreckage was scattered over a wide area."We are hearing a lot of telephones ringing, most likely belonging to the victims, and security forces are collecting them and putting them into a bag," the security officer at the scene said.Russia's Investigative Committee said it was checking fuel samples from the aircraft's last refueling stop, in the southern Russian city of Samara, according to RIA news agency. Searches were being carried out at Moscow's Domodedovo airport where the airline that operated the plane is based.Kogalymavia was founded in 1993, and was earlier called Kolavia. Its fleet consists of two A320s and seven A321s.Russia and other former Soviet republics have relatively poor safety records, notably on domestic flights.Some Russian air crashes have been blamed on the use of aging aircraft, but industry experts point to other problems, including poor crew training, crumbling airports, lax government controls and neglect of safety in the pursuit of profits.The aircraft took off at 5:51 a.m. Cairo time (10:51 p.m. EDT) and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes later, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. It was at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 meters) when it vanished from radar screens.Accidents at cruising altitude are one of the rarest categories of accidents but also among the most deadly, accounting for 13 percent of fatal incidents since 2005, according to Boeing.Investigators would be looking into, among other things, the weather at the time, the pilots' experience, maintenance records, signs of a stall and any evidence of an explosion.Experts consistently warn air accidents are usually caused by a cocktail of factors, both human and technical. According to FlightRadar24, an authoritative Sweden-based flight tracking service, the aircraft was descending rapidly at about 6,000 feet (1,800 meters) per minute when the signal was lost to air traffic control.France's civil aviation safety agency (BEA) said it would send a team to Egypt on Nov. 1 to join investigators from Germany and Russia. The United States Secretary of State John Kerry offered U.S. assistance, if needed, a spokesman said.(Additional reporting by Ehab Farouk, Ahmed Aboulenein, Lin Noueihed and Abdelnasser Aboul Elfadl in Cairo, Jason Bush and Christian Lowe in Moscow, Tim Hepher in Paris; Writing by Michael Georgy and Lin Noueihed; Editing by Ralph Boulton and Raissa Kasolowsky)
The Latest: Co-pilot's wife: He complained about plane-Associated Press-nov 1,15-yahoonews
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The latest news on a Russian passenger plane that crashed Saturday on a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg, Russia.-11:15 p.m.-The wife of the co-pilot of the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt says her husband had complained about the plane's condition, according to a Russian TV channel.State-controlled NTV ran an interview Saturday with Natalya Trukhacheva, identified as the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukachev. She said that 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."An Egyptian official had previously 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.___ 7:25 p.m.French airline Air France has decided to avoid flying over the Sinai Peninsula for safety reasons, following the crash of a Russian passenger plane in that region of Egypt.A spokeswoman for the company said Saturday that Air France's flights will avoid the area pending the investigation "as a precaution, until further notice."The airline will instead use other routes to the region's airports.The decision follows a similar move by Lufthansa announced earlier Saturday.__6:40 p.m.The Russian airline whose plane crashed in the Sinai region on Saturday says the aircraft was in good shape and the pilot was experienced.In a statement on its website, Moscow-based Metrojet says the A321 received required factory maintenance in 2014.The statement identified the captain of the plane as Valery Nemov and said he had 12,000 air hours of experience, including 3,860 in A321s.___6:30 p.m.Following the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, German airline Lufthansa says it will no longer fly across the area.A spokeswoman for Lufthansa told The Associated Press that the company had decided in a meeting Saturday that the carrier would not fly over Sinai "as long as the cause for today's crash has not been clarified."The spokeswoman said that "security is our highest priority." She spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.For the time being, the airline will instead use detours for destinations in region.___5:45 p.m.The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for bringing down the Russian Metrojet plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula — but it has have offered no evidence and is not known to have the capability to do so.It is not clear what caused the plane crash Saturday morning that killed 224 people on the flight from Egypt to St. Petersburg. Egyptian officials say the pilot reported technical difficulties and wanted to make an emergency landing. The Metrojet crashed in an area where Egyptian forces have been battling an Islamic insurgency.Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov has scoffed at the IS claim, telling the Interfax news agency that such reports "must not be considered reliable."Militants in northern Sinai have not to date shot down any commercial airliners or fighter jets but there have been media reports that they have acquired Russian shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles. These missiles, however, are only effective against low-flying aircraft or helicopters.___5:20 p.m.The airplane tracking site Flight Radar says current air traffic is operating normally over Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula despite a deadly crash there earlier in the day.Air traffic in and out of Sharm el-Sheikh was normal and a flight just took off Saturday afternoon heading to Moscow. The Egyptian resort city on the Sinai Peninsula is a favorite destination for Russian tourists.A Russian Metrojet plane crashed Saturday morning in a mountainous region in the Sinai after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people aboard. Officials said the pilot had reported a technical problem and was looking to make an emergency landing before radio contact with air traffic controllers went dead.___4:50 p.m.Russian investigators are searching the Moscow offices of Metrojet, the company whose chartered plane has crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 people aboard.Officers of Russia's top investigative body, the Investigative Committee, were also questioning Metrojet employees and doing the same at the St. Petersburg-based Brisco tour agency that had contracted for the flight from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg.Spokesman Vladimir Markin also said investigators are taking samples of fuel from the airport in Samara where the plane was last fueled.The plane crashed Saturday morning in a mountainous region of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of the city of el-Arish, where Egyptian security forces have for years been battling an Islamic militant insurgency.___4:20 p.m.Egypt's foreign minister has promised to work closely with Russian officials and experts to find the cause of the deadly plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula.Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry called his Russian counterpart to express his condolences for the victims and stressed his country's commitment "to uncover the circumstances surrounding the incident, in full cooperation and coordination with the Russian side."Egypt and Russia have grown closer diplomatically in recent months.Officials say all 224 people on board the Airbus A321-200 were killed in the Saturday morning crash that came 23 minutes after the plane took off from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Those on board heading to St. Petersburg included 3 Ukrainians and 221 Russians.According to Russian news agencies, the Russian airliner was a charter flight under contract with the St. Petersburg-based Brisco tour company.__4:05 p.m.European aircraft manufacturer Airbus confirms that the Russian passenger plane that has crashed in Egypt is an A321- 200.The plane was made in 1997 and since 2012 has been operated by Metrojet, Airbus said in a written statement. The aircraft had accumulated some 56,000 flight hours in nearly 21,000 flights.The airline manufacturer said an Airbus team of technical advisers "stands by ready to provide full technical assistance to the French Investigation Agency BEA and to the authorities in charge of the investigation."__3:55 p.m.A top Egyptian official says except for three Ukrainian passengers, everyone on board the Russian Metrojet flight that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was a Russian citizen.Adel Mahgoub, chairman of the state company that runs Egypt's civilian airports, spoke after officials said all those aboard the Russian charter flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg were killed in the crash Saturday morning.An Egyptian cabinet statement said the 217 passengers included 138 women, 62 men and 17 children. Seven crew, all Russian, were also aboard.___3 p.m.At a hotel near St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, the friends and relatives of those on the Metrojet flight that crashed in Egypt are gathering to grieve.Yulia Zaitseva said her friends, a newlywed couple named Elena Rodina and Alexqander Krotov, were on the flight. Both were 33. Egyptian officials said all 224 people on the flight were Russian and there were no survivors.Zaitseva says Saturday that her friend "really wanted to go to Egypt, though I told her 'why the hell do you want to go to Egypt?'"She says "we were friends for 20 years. 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."She said Rodina's parents feel "like their lives are over."___2:45 p.m.U.S. officials have offered their condolences to Russia and to all the families involved in the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reports that "We don't know any details about it, but obviously the initial reports represent tremendous tragedy, loss, and we extend our condolences to the families and all those concerned."Kerry spoke Saturday while on a visit to the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.Egyptian officials say all 224 people — 217 passengers and seven crew — on the Metrojet flight were Russian and there were no survivors in Saturday's crash in the Sinai Peninsula.___2:15 p.m.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.___2 p.m.Egypt's civil aviation minister says an investigative team has arrived at the Russian plane crash site in the Sinai peninsula to examine the debris and try to locate the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders, commonly known as the black box.Egyptian officials say the pilot of the Russian airliner that crashed early Saturday had reported technical difficulties and wanted to make an emergency landing before losing contact with air traffic controllers.Adel Mahgoub, chairman of the state company that runs Egypt's civilian airports, said the plane had successfully undergone technical checks at Sharm el-Sheikh's airport before taking off. He said experts were going there to view security camera footage of the Metrojet plane at the airport.The plane, carrying 217 passengers and 7 crew, all Russians, went down in an area where Egypt has been fighting an Islamic insurgency.
The Latest: Emirates halts flights over Egypt's Sinai-Associated Press By The Associated Press-nov 1,15-yahoonews
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The latest developments after a Russian passenger plane crashed in a remote part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all 224 people on board (all times local).9:25 a.m.-Dubai-based Emirates, the Middle East's biggest carrier, says it has stopped flying over Egypt's Sinai until more is known about the crash of a Russian airliner in the rugged peninsula.The airline made the announcement Sunday, the day after the crash of the Russian plane, which had taken off 23 minutes earlier from the popular Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. All 224 people on board died.The cause of the crash was not yet known. A local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group claimed it "brought down" the aircraft, but Russia's transport minister dismissed the claim.Two major European airlines, Germany's Lufthansa and Air France, said Saturday that they would immediately stop flying over Sinai for safety reasons until the cause of the crash was determined.
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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)
METRO JET
http://www.metrojet.com/index.php
http://www.metrojet.com/index.php?r=article&catid=1
JET CRASH NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGs0RqZSto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MNJV5owyu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og5fYTR21Z0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uoxL1Ye-t4
UPDATE-NOVEMBER 01,2015-12:00AM
Russian airliner with 224 aboard crashes in Egypt's Sinai, all killed-Reuters By Yusri Mohammed and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan-OCT 31,15-YAHOONEWS
ISMAILIA, Egypt/CAIRO (Reuters) - A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard.A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt, Sinai Province, said in a statement it had brought down the plane "in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land", but Russia's Transport Minister told Interfax news agency the claim "can't be considered accurate".The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said."I now see a tragic scene," an Egyptian security officer at the site told Reuters by telephone. "A lot of dead on the ground and many who died whilst strapped to their seats."The plane split into two, a small part on the tail end that burned and a larger part that crashed into a rockface. We have extracted at least 100 bodies and the rest are still inside," the officer, who requested anonymity, said.Both black boxes of the plane had been found, Mohamed Hossam Kemal, the civil aviation minister, told a news conference.Kemal said communications between the plane and air traffic control before the crash had been normal and that nothing irregular had occurred before the accident."The plane did not request a change of route," he said.Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail also told the news conference that there did not appear to be any unusual activity behind the crash but the facts would not be clear until further investigations had been carried out.Ismail said 129 bodies had so far been removed and the chances of finding survivors were now near-impossible.Bodies were being transported to various hospitals with 34 arriving in the Zeinhom morgue in Cairo early in the evening.Islamic State, in a statement on Twitter, said it had brought down the aircraft.Sinai is the scene of an insurgency by militants close to Islamic State, who have killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police and have also attacked Western targets in recent months. Much of the Sinai is a restricted military zone.Militants in the area are not believed to have missiles capable of hitting a plane at 30,000 feet. Islamic State websites have in the past claimed responsibility for actions that have not been conclusively attributed to them.Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, launched air raids against opposition groups in Syria including Islamic State on Sept. 30.Two of Europe's largest airlines, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM , said they would avoid flying over the Sinai peninsula while awaiting an explanation on the cause of the crash.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promised Russia's President Vladimir Putin he would allow Russian experts to join the investigation.The prime minister said a Russian team would arrive in Egypt later on Saturday night. The country is also preparing to receive the families of the victims.-TELEPHONES RINGING-Putin declared a day of national mourning for Sunday. The passengers included 214 Russians and three Ukrainians.A middle-aged man in a gray overcoat, who gave his first name as Nayeel, wept as he spoke to reporters as he came out of a hotel near St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, where a special reception center has been set up for families of the victims.He said that his wife had been on the plane."At six am she sent me a text message saying: I’m boarding. God be with me.’ And that was it,” he said. The man said the rest of the family had already returned from a holiday in Egypt, but his wife had opted to stay on, which is why she was on the Saturday morning flight.The A321 is a medium-haul jet in service since 1994, with over 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.Airbus said the A321 was built in 1997 and had been operated by Metrojet since 2012. It had flown 56,000 hours in nearly 21,000 flights and was powered by engines from International Aero Engines consortium, which includes United Technologies unit Pratt & Whitney and Germany's MTU Aero Engines .Emergency services and aviation specialists searched the wreckage for any clues to the crash. Wreckage was scattered over a wide area."We are hearing a lot of telephones ringing, most likely belonging to the victims, and security forces are collecting them and putting them into a bag," the security officer at the scene said.Russia's Investigative Committee said it was checking fuel samples from the aircraft's last refueling stop, in the southern Russian city of Samara, according to RIA news agency. Searches were being carried out at Moscow's Domodedovo airport where the airline that operated the plane is based.Kogalymavia was founded in 1993, and was earlier called Kolavia. Its fleet consists of two A320s and seven A321s.Russia and other former Soviet republics have relatively poor safety records, notably on domestic flights.Some Russian air crashes have been blamed on the use of aging aircraft, but industry experts point to other problems, including poor crew training, crumbling airports, lax government controls and neglect of safety in the pursuit of profits.The aircraft took off at 5:51 a.m. Cairo time (10:51 p.m. EDT) and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes later, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. It was at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 meters) when it vanished from radar screens.Accidents at cruising altitude are one of the rarest categories of accidents but also among the most deadly, accounting for 13 percent of fatal incidents since 2005, according to Boeing.Investigators would be looking into, among other things, the weather at the time, the pilots' experience, maintenance records, signs of a stall and any evidence of an explosion.Experts consistently warn air accidents are usually caused by a cocktail of factors, both human and technical. According to FlightRadar24, an authoritative Sweden-based flight tracking service, the aircraft was descending rapidly at about 6,000 feet (1,800 meters) per minute when the signal was lost to air traffic control.France's civil aviation safety agency (BEA) said it would send a team to Egypt on Nov. 1 to join investigators from Germany and Russia. The United States Secretary of State John Kerry offered U.S. assistance, if needed, a spokesman said.(Additional reporting by Ehab Farouk, Ahmed Aboulenein, Lin Noueihed and Abdelnasser Aboul Elfadl in Cairo, Jason Bush and Christian Lowe in Moscow, Tim Hepher in Paris; Writing by Michael Georgy and Lin Noueihed; Editing by Ralph Boulton and Raissa Kasolowsky)
The Latest: Co-pilot's wife: He complained about plane-Associated Press-nov 1,15-yahoonews
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The latest news on a Russian passenger plane that crashed Saturday on a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg, Russia.-11:15 p.m.-The wife of the co-pilot of the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt says her husband had complained about the plane's condition, according to a Russian TV channel.State-controlled NTV ran an interview Saturday with Natalya Trukhacheva, identified as the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukachev. She said that 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."An Egyptian official had previously 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.___ 7:25 p.m.French airline Air France has decided to avoid flying over the Sinai Peninsula for safety reasons, following the crash of a Russian passenger plane in that region of Egypt.A spokeswoman for the company said Saturday that Air France's flights will avoid the area pending the investigation "as a precaution, until further notice."The airline will instead use other routes to the region's airports.The decision follows a similar move by Lufthansa announced earlier Saturday.__6:40 p.m.The Russian airline whose plane crashed in the Sinai region on Saturday says the aircraft was in good shape and the pilot was experienced.In a statement on its website, Moscow-based Metrojet says the A321 received required factory maintenance in 2014.The statement identified the captain of the plane as Valery Nemov and said he had 12,000 air hours of experience, including 3,860 in A321s.___6:30 p.m.Following the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, German airline Lufthansa says it will no longer fly across the area.A spokeswoman for Lufthansa told The Associated Press that the company had decided in a meeting Saturday that the carrier would not fly over Sinai "as long as the cause for today's crash has not been clarified."The spokeswoman said that "security is our highest priority." She spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.For the time being, the airline will instead use detours for destinations in region.___5:45 p.m.The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for bringing down the Russian Metrojet plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula — but it has have offered no evidence and is not known to have the capability to do so.It is not clear what caused the plane crash Saturday morning that killed 224 people on the flight from Egypt to St. Petersburg. Egyptian officials say the pilot reported technical difficulties and wanted to make an emergency landing. The Metrojet crashed in an area where Egyptian forces have been battling an Islamic insurgency.Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov has scoffed at the IS claim, telling the Interfax news agency that such reports "must not be considered reliable."Militants in northern Sinai have not to date shot down any commercial airliners or fighter jets but there have been media reports that they have acquired Russian shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles. These missiles, however, are only effective against low-flying aircraft or helicopters.___5:20 p.m.The airplane tracking site Flight Radar says current air traffic is operating normally over Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula despite a deadly crash there earlier in the day.Air traffic in and out of Sharm el-Sheikh was normal and a flight just took off Saturday afternoon heading to Moscow. The Egyptian resort city on the Sinai Peninsula is a favorite destination for Russian tourists.A Russian Metrojet plane crashed Saturday morning in a mountainous region in the Sinai after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people aboard. Officials said the pilot had reported a technical problem and was looking to make an emergency landing before radio contact with air traffic controllers went dead.___4:50 p.m.Russian investigators are searching the Moscow offices of Metrojet, the company whose chartered plane has crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 people aboard.Officers of Russia's top investigative body, the Investigative Committee, were also questioning Metrojet employees and doing the same at the St. Petersburg-based Brisco tour agency that had contracted for the flight from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg.Spokesman Vladimir Markin also said investigators are taking samples of fuel from the airport in Samara where the plane was last fueled.The plane crashed Saturday morning in a mountainous region of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of the city of el-Arish, where Egyptian security forces have for years been battling an Islamic militant insurgency.___4:20 p.m.Egypt's foreign minister has promised to work closely with Russian officials and experts to find the cause of the deadly plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula.Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry called his Russian counterpart to express his condolences for the victims and stressed his country's commitment "to uncover the circumstances surrounding the incident, in full cooperation and coordination with the Russian side."Egypt and Russia have grown closer diplomatically in recent months.Officials say all 224 people on board the Airbus A321-200 were killed in the Saturday morning crash that came 23 minutes after the plane took off from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Those on board heading to St. Petersburg included 3 Ukrainians and 221 Russians.According to Russian news agencies, the Russian airliner was a charter flight under contract with the St. Petersburg-based Brisco tour company.__4:05 p.m.European aircraft manufacturer Airbus confirms that the Russian passenger plane that has crashed in Egypt is an A321- 200.The plane was made in 1997 and since 2012 has been operated by Metrojet, Airbus said in a written statement. The aircraft had accumulated some 56,000 flight hours in nearly 21,000 flights.The airline manufacturer said an Airbus team of technical advisers "stands by ready to provide full technical assistance to the French Investigation Agency BEA and to the authorities in charge of the investigation."__3:55 p.m.A top Egyptian official says except for three Ukrainian passengers, everyone on board the Russian Metrojet flight that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was a Russian citizen.Adel Mahgoub, chairman of the state company that runs Egypt's civilian airports, spoke after officials said all those aboard the Russian charter flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg were killed in the crash Saturday morning.An Egyptian cabinet statement said the 217 passengers included 138 women, 62 men and 17 children. Seven crew, all Russian, were also aboard.___3 p.m.At a hotel near St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, the friends and relatives of those on the Metrojet flight that crashed in Egypt are gathering to grieve.Yulia Zaitseva said her friends, a newlywed couple named Elena Rodina and Alexqander Krotov, were on the flight. Both were 33. Egyptian officials said all 224 people on the flight were Russian and there were no survivors.Zaitseva says Saturday that her friend "really wanted to go to Egypt, though I told her 'why the hell do you want to go to Egypt?'"She says "we were friends for 20 years. 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."She said Rodina's parents feel "like their lives are over."___2:45 p.m.U.S. officials have offered their condolences to Russia and to all the families involved in the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reports that "We don't know any details about it, but obviously the initial reports represent tremendous tragedy, loss, and we extend our condolences to the families and all those concerned."Kerry spoke Saturday while on a visit to the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.Egyptian officials say all 224 people — 217 passengers and seven crew — on the Metrojet flight were Russian and there were no survivors in Saturday's crash in the Sinai Peninsula.___2:15 p.m.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.___2 p.m.Egypt's civil aviation minister says an investigative team has arrived at the Russian plane crash site in the Sinai peninsula to examine the debris and try to locate the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders, commonly known as the black box.Egyptian officials say the pilot of the Russian airliner that crashed early Saturday had reported technical difficulties and wanted to make an emergency landing before losing contact with air traffic controllers.Adel Mahgoub, chairman of the state company that runs Egypt's civilian airports, said the plane had successfully undergone technical checks at Sharm el-Sheikh's airport before taking off. He said experts were going there to view security camera footage of the Metrojet plane at the airport.The plane, carrying 217 passengers and 7 crew, all Russians, went down in an area where Egypt has been fighting an Islamic insurgency.
The Latest: Emirates halts flights over Egypt's Sinai-Associated Press By The Associated Press-nov 1,15-yahoonews
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The latest developments after a Russian passenger plane crashed in a remote part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all 224 people on board (all times local).9:25 a.m.-Dubai-based Emirates, the Middle East's biggest carrier, says it has stopped flying over Egypt's Sinai until more is known about the crash of a Russian airliner in the rugged peninsula.The airline made the announcement Sunday, the day after the crash of the Russian plane, which had taken off 23 minutes earlier from the popular Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. All 224 people on board died.The cause of the crash was not yet known. A local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group claimed it "brought down" the aircraft, but Russia's transport minister dismissed the claim.Two major European airlines, Germany's Lufthansa and Air France, said Saturday that they would immediately stop flying over Sinai for safety reasons until the cause of the crash was determined.
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