Maxim Grigoriev / Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations / APThe Russian Airbus that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board, could have only been brought down by external forces, a senior airline official said. The comments by Alexander Smirnov, a deputy director for Kogalymavia, which was operating under the name Metrojet, came the same day a spokesman for the Kremlin said terrorism could not be ruled out as a cause of the crash. Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed Saturday shortly after takeoff from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh en …read more
Source: The Atlantic
