The aircraft A321 of the airline Kogalymavia carrying out flight Sharm el-Sheikh - Petersburg crashed on Saturday, October 31, 100km from Arish in North Sinai. There were 224 people onboard. According to Egypt’s officials, no one survived. November 1 was declared national day of mourning in Russia over plane crash in Egypt.
Russian Airbus A321 crash in Egypt
There were 224 people on board. No one survived
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On October 31, Kogalymavia airline’s Flight 9268 carrying Russian tourists home on board Airbus A321 crashed just 30 minutes after taking off in Egypt
© Marina Lystseva/TASS The plane debris was spotted in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, some 100 kilometres south of the city of El-Arish
© Flightradar24.com screen shot There were 217 passengers and seven crew members on board. Photo: Relatives of those on the Metrojet flight that crashed in Egypt
© Sergei Konkov/TASS According to Egypt’s officials, no one survived. Photo: Relatives of of those on the Metrojet flight that crashed in Egypt, at Pulkovo airport in St.Petersburg, Russia
© Alexandr Demyanchyuk/TASS Police standing guard outside a morgue in Cairo, Egypt, ahead of the arrival of bodies of Russian plane crash victims
© AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty Ambulances transporting the bodies of the victims of the Russian passenger flight crash at the Zeinhom morgue, Cairo, Egypt
© EPA/MOHAMMED HOSSAM Sherif Ismail and military and government officials at the site where a passenger plane crashed in Hassana Egypt
© Suliman el-Oteify, Egypt Prime Minister's Office via AP Sherif Ismail and military and government officials at the site where a passenger plane crashed in Hassana Egypt
© Suliman el-Oteify, Egypt Prime Minister's Office via AP Debris from crashed Russian jet, Sinai, Egypt
© EPA/STR Debris from crashed Russian jet, Sinai, Egypt
© EPA/STR Item of clothing at the site where a passenger plane crashed in Hassana Egypt
© Suliman el-Oteify, Egypt Prime Minister's Office via AP