Two days after a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 people on board, the cause of the disaster remains a mystery.
Earlier, a top official at the Russian airline Metrojet said at a news conference in Moscow on Monday that a technical failure was out of the question. The official, Alexander Smirnov, said instead that a “mechanical impact” was to blame.
Metrojet officials, who are under scrutiny from Russian authorities, did not identify a specific cause, while the investigators continue to work. Separately on Monday, Russian authorities began to repatriate the bodies of those killed. Initial statements from …read more
Source: Time
