Militants are suspected of “helping” this plane to come down.
Via Mashable:
There are no survivors from a Russian plane with 224 on board that crashed in a mountainous area of Egypt’s Sinai, Egyptian authorities said Saturday, as search and recovery teams investigated the wreckage.
Reuters reported that the “black box” data recorder has been found.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the Airbus A-321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, also known as Metrojet, 23 minutes after it took off from the popular Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh at 5:51 a.m. local time. It was headed to St. Petersburg. The 217 passengers were all or mostly Russian, the BBC said.