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Questions swirl over Russian plane crash in Sinai that killed all 224 aboard

Questions swirl over Russian plane crash in Sinai that killed all 224 aboard




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  • Fuselage disintegrated in midair, Russian media quote aviation official as saying
  • Egyptian official says there was nothing abnormal before plane dropped off radar
  • Russian and Egyptian authorities dismiss apparent claim of responsibility from militants
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (CNN)The remains of Russian tourists killed in a passenger jet crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula are expected to start arriving back in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday as questions swirl over what caused the disaster.
All 224 people aboard Kogalymavia Flight 9268 died in the Saturday morning crash that left debris strewn across a remote area of a region plagued by a violent Islamic insurgency.
The airliner broke into pieces in midair, Russia's state-run media quoted an aviation official as saying, but there were no additional details.


"Disintegration of the fuselage took place in the air, and the fragments are scattered around a large area (about 20 square kilometers)," Viktor Sorochenko, executive director of Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, told journalists, according to reports.
Footage from the scene showed mangled wreckage and piles of belongings from the plane spilled over a largely flat, barren landscape.
Many of the passengers on the Airbus A321-200 aircraft, which crashed en route from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, were reported by Russian state media to be returning from vacation. Russian officials said there were 25 children aboard the plane.
At Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, where the aircraft was supposed to end its journey, mourners paid their respects to victims at a makeshift memorial. People brought red or white carnations and stuffed toys. A table held a dozen candles. Relatives who had waited desperately for news of loved ones broke down in tears.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Sunday a day of mourning.

'It suddenly disappeared'

It remains unclear what caused Flight 9268 to suddenly drop off radar, in clear weather after only 23 minutes in the air, and hurtle to the ground.
Speaking to high-ranking army officers in Cairo on Sunday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi asked them to observe a moment of silence before urging the public not to jump to conclusions. Determining what happened will require a lengthy investigation, he said.
"These are complicated matters that require advanced technologies and wide investigations that might go on for months," he said.

The crash is most likely the result of a technical failure, Egyptian Airports Co. chief Adel Al-Mahjoob told CNN Arabic on Saturday, although he noted that the plane passed a routine check before it took off.
Russian media outlets said that the pilot reported technical problems and requested a landing at the nearest airport before the plane went missing, but Egyptian authorities disputed that claim.
Air traffic control recordings don't show any distress calls, Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamel said at a news conference.
"There was nothing abnormal before the plane crash," he said. "It suddenly disappeared from the radar."

'Little that can or should go wrong'

CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest said it was "unusual" for an aircraft to go down after around 20 minutes in the sky.
Quest: Airbus A320 the 'backbone' of European fleets
Quest: Airbus A320 the 'backbone' of European fleets 02:44
"At this point, a plane is on autopilot. It's reaching its initial cruising altitude, and there is little that can or should go wrong," he wrote in an analysis.
Investigators are likely to get a better understanding of what happened from the aircraft's so-called black boxes -- the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder -- which have been recovered and transported to Cairo for analysis.
The data recorder stores a vast array of information about the flight, such as air speed, altitude, engine performance and wing positions. The voice recorder captures sounds on the flight deck that can include conversations between the pilots and warning noises from the aircraft.
Analysis: Plane crashed at what should have been flight's safest point

Militants' claim of responsibility dismissed

The Sinai Peninsula, where Flight 9268 crashed, is home to ISIS-affiliated militants who are locked in a deadly conflict with Egyptian security forces. They appeared to claim responsibility for bringing down the Russian passenger jet in a statement posted online Saturday, but officials in Egypt and Russia dismissed it.
Aviation expert: Major failure aboard aircraft
Aviation expert: Major failure aboard aircraft 03:31
Mahjoob, the airport official, said there was no evidence of a terrorist attack. And Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said the claim that terrorists brought down the plane by using an anti-aircraft missile "cannot be considered reliable," according to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
The Egyptian military said militants in Sinai have shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapons that only shoot as high as 14,000 feet, far short of the more than 30,000 feet at which Flight 9268 was flying when it dropped off radar.

To reach such an altitude would require missiles using special launch pads and radar systems operated by engineers, the military said.
It added that many of the victims of the crash were found with their seatbelts on, suggesting the pilot had asked them to buckle up because of a problem with the aircraft.
Nonetheless, Air France, the German air carrier Lufthansa and the UAE airlines Etihad, Emirates, AirArabia and flydubai have decided to reroute aircraft scheduled to fly over Sinai.
"We will keep that measure in place as long as we are not sure of the circumstances and the reasons of the Metrojet crash," Lufthansa spokeswoman Bettina Rittberger said. Metrojet is the name by which the Russian airline, Kogalymavia, is commonly known.
Etihad said in a statement that it was "complying with instructions by the Egyptian authorities to avoid certain areas of airspace over the Sinai peninsula," which would affect only a handful of flights.

Russians promised broad role in investigation

Russian emergency ministry officials were on the ground at the crash site in northern Sinai on Sunday, Russian state media reported.
Egypt: No foul play suspected in Russian jet crash
Egypt: No foul play suspected in Russian jet crash 02:40
Sisi, the Egyptian President, has promised Putin to allow "the broadest possible participation of Russian experts in the investigation," according to the Kremlin. Putin has also ordered Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to open an investigation into the crash, it said.
The Egyptian government said Sunday that 163 bodies have so far been transported to morgues and hospitals in Cairo while the search continues for others at the site. Russian government aircraft were expected to start transporting them to St. Petersburg.
The Airbus A321-200 that crashed Saturday was built in 1997 and Metrojet had been operating it since 2012, Airbus said in a statement. The aircraft had clocked up around 56,000 flight hours over the course of nearly 21,000 flights, it said.
There were 217 passengers and seven crew members on board, most of them believed to be Russian. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin tweeted that four victims were Ukrainian citizens.
Sharm el-Sheikh, where Flight 9268 began its journey, is a beach resort dotted with palm trees at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. The plane crashed about 300 kilometers (185 miles) farther north, near a town called Housna, according to Egyptian authorities.
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Russian plane crash: Isis responsibility claim rejected - latest updates

Russian plane crash: Isis responsibility claim rejected - latest updates


 


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IS claims downing in Sinai of Russian plane carrying 224







People at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport wait for news after a plane with 224 people on board crashes in Sinai during a flight to Russia
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Cairo (AFP) - A Russian charter plane carrying 224 people crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula Saturday, killing all on board, Egyptian officials said.


The Islamic State group affiliate in Egypt claimed that it downed the plane, without saying how, but there has been no official word on the cause of the crash.
The plane with 214 Russian and three Ukranian passengers, and seven crew, had taken off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in the south Sinai bound for Saint Petersburg. It lost contact with air traffic control 23 minutes later.
Egyptian security and medical officials said there were no survivors, and that the bodies of the passengers and debris were spread out over an area of five square kilometres (two square miles).
The Russian embassy in Cairo said: "Unfortunately, all passengers of Kogalymavia flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh-Saint Petersburg have died. We issue condolences to family and friends."
The wreckage was found roughly 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the North Sinai town of El-Arish, Egyptian officials said.
The IS affiliate, which is waging a deadly insurgency in the Sinai, claimed that "the soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane" there.
It said this was in revenge for Russian air strikes against militants in Syria, where IS controls territories that straddle Iraq.
Three military experts said IS in Sinai does not have surface-to-air missiles capable of hitting a plane at high altitude.
But they could not exclude the possibility of a bomb on board or a surface-to-air missile strike if the plane had descended for an emergency landing.
The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Moscow's emergency ministry to dispatch rescue teams to Egypt.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his French counterpart Francois Hollande said they had sent their condolences to Moscow.
The Russian emergency ministry published a list of names of the passengers, ranging in age from a 10-month-old girl to a 77-year-old woman.
A senior Egyptian aviation official said the plane was a charter flight operated by a Russian firm, and was flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet when communication was lost.
At Saint Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, anxious family members awaited news of their loved ones.
"I am meeting my parents," said 25-year-old woman, Ella Smirnova, seemingly in shock. "I spoke to them last on the phone when they were already on the plane, and then I heard the news."
"I will keep hoping until the end that they are alive, but perhaps I will never see them again."
A senior Egyptian air traffic control official said the pilot told him in their last communication that he was having trouble with the radio system.
Russian aviation official Sergei Izvolsky told Interfax news agency that the Airbus 321 operated by Russian carrier Kogalymavia had departed Sharm el-Sheikh at 5:51 am (0351 GMT).
He said the plane did not make contact as expected with air traffic controllers in Cyprus.
- Communication lost -
"Communication was lost today with the Airbus 321 of Kogalymavia which was carrying out flight 9268 from Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg," Izvolsky told Russian television networks.
"The plane departed Sharm el-Sheikh with 217 passengers and seven crew members. At 7:14 Moscow time the crew was scheduled to make contact with... Larnaca (Cyprus). However, this did not happen and the plane disappeared from the radar screens."
Kogalymavia, which operates under the name Metrojet, says it has two A320 planes and seven A321s, and that it transported 779,626 passengers in the first nine months of 2015, according to the Russian aviation agency Rosaviatsia.
Russia has a dismal air safety record, with charter operators often under pressure to book to capacity on ageing jets in a bid to cut costs.
Kogalymavia is a small regional carrier that flies mostly international charter services.
No representative of the airline could be found at the airport in Saint Petersburg and nobody at the company was answering the phones.
Russia's regional airlines are notorious, and the crash is likely to raise renewed concerns about the safety of air travel in a country where experts have sounded the alarm over the ageing fleet of passenger jets.
The last major airliner crash in Egypt happened in 2004, when a Flash Airlines Boeing 737 plunged into the Red Sea after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh.
The 148 people on board, most of whom were French, were killed.
Millions of tourists, many of them Russian, visit the resort, one of Egypt's major attractions for holidaymakers looking for pristine beaches and scuba diving.
It and other resorts dotting the Red Sea coast are heavily secured by the military and police, as an Islamist militant insurgency rages in the north of the peninsula, which borders Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Militants in the north who pledged allegiance to the jihadist Islamic State group have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

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No survivors from Russian plane crash in Egypt



No survivors from Russian plane crash in Egypt

At least 224 people killed after airliner crashed in mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

| Middle East, Egypt




There were 214 passengers on board of the Metrojet's Airbus A-321, Egypt's cabinet has said [AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky]
There were 214 passengers on board of the Metrojet's Airbus A-321, Egypt's cabinet has said [AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky]

All 224 passengers and crew on board a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have died, Egyptian medical and security sources said.
Search and rescue team members are still gathering the remains of victims after the crash on Saturday, the sources said.
The plane was heading to St Petersburg, likely carrying tourists returning from holidays in Egypt's popular Sharm el-Sheikh resort.
The Russian embassy confirmed there were no survivors.
A statement Egypt's civil aviation ministry said the wreckage of the Russian passenger jet was found in the Hassana area, south of the city of el-Arish.
It said the plane - a Metrojet Airbus A321 - took off from Sinai Peninsula's Sharm el-Sheikh, a popular destination for Russian tourists, and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes after take-off.
Day of mourning
Among the passengers were 214 Russians and three Ukrainians, plus seven crew members, the Egyptian government said.
At least 24 children were on board, the Association of Travel Operators of Russia said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a day of national mourning.
Many bodies had already been found, said Mahmoud al-Zanati, head of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority.
"The search operation is still going on at the site of the accident. The wreckage is spread across a vast area," he added, according to state-run newspaper al-Ahram.
"A tragic scene"
Egyptian rescue team members earlier said they heard voices in a section of the plane, an officer on the scene told Reuters news agency.
North Sinai security sources said a technical fault caused the crash.
The black box which contains the flight data was also found at the scene.
An Egyptian security officer at the scene said: "A lot of the dead are on the ground, and many died whilst strapped to their seats. I now see a tragic scene.
"The plane split into two, a small part on the tail end that burned and a larger part that crashed into a rock. We have extracted at least 100 bodies and the rest are still inside."
At a hotel near St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, the friends and relatives of those on the flight gathered to grieve.
Yulia Zaitseva said her friends, a newlywed couple named Elena Rodina and Alexqander Krotov, were on the flight. Both were 33 years old.
Zaitseva said that her friend "really wanted to go to Egypt."
She added: "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."
Investigation launched

Separately, Egypt's top prosecutor ordered an investigation into the cause of the crash.
Nabil Sadek, the prosecutor general, ordered the formation of a team of prosecutors tasked with going to the site of the crash and investigating the debris.
A centre to help relatives of the passengers has been set up at Pulkovo airport, Tass news agency quoted St Peterburg city officials as saying.
The Airbus 321 was at an altitude of 9,450m when it vanished from radar screens.
Most of the passengers are said to be Russian tourists, according to reports. The plane was operated by the small Russian airline Kogalymavia, based in western Siberia.
The pilot reportedly requested clearance for an emergency landing at Cairo airport due to a technical malfunction.

Source: Agencies
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Sinai plane crash: No survivors on Russian airliner KGL9268

Sinai plane crash: No survivors on Russian airliner KGL9268

A Russian airliner has crashed in central Sinai killing all 224 people on board, Egyptian officials have said.
The Airbus A-321 had just left the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, bound for the Russian city of St Petersburg.
Wreckage was found in the Hasana area and bodies removed, along with the plane's "black box". An official described a "tragic scene" with bodies of victims still strapped to seats.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Sunday a day of mourning.
He has ordered an official investigation into the crash, and for rescue teams to be sent to the crash site.
Egyptian officials said 214 of the passengers were Russian and three Ukrainian.
A passenger list published by the Russian Association of Tour Operators showed that 10 of those on board were under the age of 10, with one only 10 months old.
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A commission headed by Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov is to leave for Egypt on Saturday afternoon.
A criminal case has also been opened against the airline, Kogalymavia, for "violation of rules of flight and preparation for them", Russia's Ria news agency reported.
Oksana Golovin, a spokeswoman for the airline, said the company did not see any grounds to blame human error.
She told a press conference that the pilot had 12,000 hours of flying experience. Kogalymavia did not yet know what caused the crash, she said, but the plane was fully serviced.
Police are reported to be searching the company's offices.
Russian authorities say the plane was carrying 217 passengers, 138 of them women and 17 children aged between 2 and 17. Most were tourists. There were seven crew on board.
Egyptian officials investigating the scene said there were no survivors.
A centre to help relatives of the passengers has been set up at Pulkovo airport, Tass news agency quoted St Petersburg city officials as saying.

Sudden altitude loss


Initially there were conflicting reports about the fate of the plane, some suggesting it had disappeared over Cyprus.
But the office of Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif Ismail confirmed in a statement that a "Russian civilian plane... crashed in the central Sinai".
Officials say up to 50 ambulances have been sent to the scene.
Access to the area is strictly controlled by the military and the terrain is difficult, correspondents say.
One official told Reuters news agency that at least 100 bodies had been found.
"I now see a tragic scene," the official said. "A lot of dead on the ground and many died whilst strapped to their seats."
The plane split in two, with one part burning up and the other crashing into a rock, he added.
The Egyptian cabinet said in a statement that flight KGL9268 left Sharm el-Sheikh at 05:58 local time (03:58 GMT)
It added that the aircraft went off the radar 22 minutes after take-off.
The flight had been due into St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport at 09:10 GMT.

Kogalymavia airline

  • Also known as KolAvia
  • Founded in 1993
  • Carried out regular and charter flights to other parts of Russia from the western Siberian towns of Kogalym and Surgut, and helicopter flights for the oil and gas industry
  • Rebranded as Metrojet in 2012
  • After takeover by tourism company TH&C in 2013, began flights to international destinations popular with Russian holiday-makers
  • Currently has fleet of seven Airbus-321s and two Airbus-320s

Egypt's civilian aviation ministry said the plane had been at an altitude of 9,450m (31,000ft) when it disappeared.
Live flight tracking service Flight Radar 24's Mikail Robertson confirmed the altitude.
He told the BBC that the plane started to drop very fast, losing 1,500 metres in one minute before coverage was lost.
Sergei Izdolsky, an official with Russia's air transport agency, said the plane had been due to make contact with air traffic controllers in Cyprus half an hour after take-off, but did not do so.
Soon after, he said, the plane disappeared from Cypriot radar screens.
Aviation official Ayman al-Mukadem said the pilot had reported technical difficulties before the plane went missing, the Associated Press reported.
Local weather observations in the vicinity of the rescue scene suggest relatively benign conditions.
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11 Best Trees to Plant for New England-Style Foliage by Marie Viljoen





When planning gardens we often think about form and about blossoms, in terms of trees, but not about what happens next. Fall color is an added and symbolic seasonal domestic pleasure at a time when New England and the forests of the Northeast are blazing with it.  Here is a collection of 11 trees which turn gorgeous when the air begins to nip.
Photography by Marie Viljoen except where noted.
Catskills in autumn fall foliage colorful leaves Marie Viljoen ; Gardenista
Above: A warm glow from a well-chosen selection of autumn-interest trees adds complexity and depth to the picture that is a garden.

Crabapple


Crabapple tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: Crabapple trees are overlooked as autumn contenders; we usually think only of their spring blossoms with their fresh-snow scent. But when cold weather arrives the right cultivar (try ‘Adams’, or try ‘Calocarpa’) will make the neighbors think you are growing your own maraschino cherries. The fruit lights up the bare branches like Christmas ornaments and persists through the most intense months of winter, also providing food for passing and hungry birds.

Crepe Myrtle

Crepe myrtle tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: Photograph by Bron Praslicka via Flickr.
Crepe myrtles (Lagerstroemia indica) turn a shocking orange in fall (when planted in full sun), bridging their other two seasons of interest: summer’s lush bunches of flowers, and winter’s smooth bark on sinuous branches, exposed after the bright leaves have fluttered down. They are medium to small trees and good for large containers and small gardens.

Hawthorn


Hawthorn tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: Better known for their posies of scented blossom in mid spring, hardy hawthorns (Crataegus species and cultivars)are yellow and russet beacons in autumn, displaying fiery bunches of berries in ornamental clusters which last well into the new year.  Try their ripe fruit in jellies and fruit leathers.

Black Locust

Black locust tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: If you have the space for a statuesque tree, the indigenous black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a fall-gorgeous choice. Following many months after the sweetly scented (and edible) mid-spring flowers, the compound leaves are like yellow feathers on the tree and turn the ground beneath into a magic carpet when they fall.

Redbud

Redbud tree colorful fall foliage New York city park bench Marie Viljoen ; Gardenista
Above: Demure denizens of eastern North American forest edges, redbuds (Cercis canadensis) light up for fall. Their large, heart-shaped leaves become brilliant yellow, and transform the small trees into bright umbrellas after the first frost. This is the perfect tree for shade or semi-shade, and a small garden.

Rowan

Rowan mountain ash tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: A native of the Northeast, the little-used rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus americana), is a striking choice for any garden spot with full sun. Large bunches of amber berries (they make excellent jellies and cordials) ripen from late summer and are later backlit by the crimson compound leaves. Ask for this tree at a native plant nursery. It deserves to be better known.

Sassafras 

Sassafras tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)roots used to be the source of the flavor in rootbeer, and if you crush their fragrant wide leaves a vintage float is exactly what you smell.  The powdered green leaves make the Creole gumbo-thickener, filé. But even if you do not eat them, plant sassafras for its rich copper fall attire, which blazes along shady garden edges.

Serviceberry 

Serviceberry tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: It is hard to say enough about serviceberries (Amelanchier species). Another North American native, the only time this tree goes silent is in winter. After dainty spring bloom and early summer fruit (which look like red blueberries and taste like sweet apples), the leaves of these multi-stemmed small trees and shrubs gradually begin to smoulder, each leaf’s ribs etched in yellow on a red-hot background.

Spicebush

Spicebush tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: In his book Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002), William Cullina, director of the Maine Coastal Botanic Garden, writes that spicebush (Lindera benzoin)” has a wild elegance about it that is perfect at the edge of the woods or scattered through trees." It is one of the earliest shade-loving trees to flower after winter. In the fall female trees bear berries like red drops hanging among the yellow leaves (the berries are known as Appalachian allspice and are used in cooking. Crush the twigs of the tree to smell its citrus-pine scent.)

Witch Hazel

Witch hazel tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
Above: The native witch hazel (Hammamelis virginiana) does two wonderful things at once: it blooms and turns at the same time. In mid fall the flowers hang like yellow threads beneath crisping golden leaves. Imported witch hazel cultivars from Asia also deliver excellent autumn interest, whiletheir flowers appear in late winter. Grown in full sun to dappled shade, they are smart choices for small gardens.

Zelkova

Zelkova tree Marie Viljoen; Gardenista
A late fall walk under the same avenue of zelkovas (Zelkova serrata) you have seen every day for the last year will stop you in your tracks. What is that tree? Until November, you don’t notice they’re there – and then they begin to burn. These vase-shaped street trees are among the most brilliantly colored in autumn and warrant a spot in a large, sunny garden.
For more fall color, see:
  • The Science of Color: Why Leaves Turn in Fall.
  • Autumn Colors: A Fiery Fall Palette by Landscape Designer Larry Weaner.
  • An English Gardener's Diary: I Do Love My Rowan.
  • http://www.gardenista.com/posts/10-best-trees-to-plant-for-new-england-style-foliage

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