(SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt) — A Russian aircraft carrying 224 people, including 17 children, crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after taking off from a Red Sea resort popular with Russian tourists, the Egyptian government said.
There were no survivors, the Russian Embassy in Cairo said on its Twitter account.
Adel Mahgoub, chairman of the state company that runs Egypt’s civilian airports, said that, except for three Ukrainian passengers, everyone on board was Russian. An Egyptian Cabinet statement said the passengers were 138 women, 62 men and 17 children. It said the aircraft, an Airbus …read more
Source: Time
