A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, apparently killing everyone aboard.
The plane disappeared from radar less than half an hour after taking off early Saturday from the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh. Almost all the passengers were Russian tourists heading home to St. Petersburg.
Emergency workers who arrived at the scene found only broken wreckage and bodies. Unconfirmed reports said the pilot reported trouble and asked for the nearest landing site just before controllers lost contact with the Airbus jet, but there has been no information about the cause of …read more
Source: Voice of America
