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November 6th, 2015 
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nsnbc : The Chief of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, advised the Russian Anti-Terror Committee to halt all flights to Egypt as long as the investigation into the crash of the Russian Airbus 321 on October 31 in Egypt’s North Sinai province continues.
Photo courtesy of Tass, Maxim Grygoriev.
The Russian Airbus operated by Kogalmavia (Kogalymavia) airlines a.k.a. Metrojet crashed in Egypt’s North Sinai province 23 minutes after takeoff from the Egyptian Red Sea holiday resort Sharm el-Sheikh. All 224 passengers and crew on board died in the crash. The airliner on Flight KGL9268 broke reportedly up in flight.
There have been conflicting reports about whether the crash could have been caused by a missile, a bomb on board, technical malfunction or metal fatigue in a tail section of the plane that had previously been repaired after a tail strike.
Several operators, including Lufthansa and Air France have suspended flights to Egypt. Yesterday the government of the United Kingdom canceled all British operated flight to and from Sharm el-Sheikh. On Friday Russian FSB chief Aleksandr Bortnikov advised the Russian Anti-Terrorism Committee to follow suit, stating “I suggest temporarily halting all Russian flights to Egypt”.
The head of the Russian Aviation Agency Rosaviatsia, Aleksandr Neradko, previously said that everything suggests that the destruction of the plane occurred “in the air and at a great altitude.” The evidence for that is the remains of the plane and the bodies which have been scattered over an area measuring about 8 km by 4 km, he said.
The Russian Presidency has stated that it agrees with the FSB chief’s assessment to cancel flights to Egypt.
The tragic crash of Flight KGL9268 is the second loss of an airliner in a region where a conflict is in progress since the crash of Malaysia Airlines MH17 in Eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
One of the main conclusions of the investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, was that tens of operators as well as the Ukrainian government had failed to recognize the risk of flying over an area where a conflict is in progress.
Egypt has been combating Muslim Brotherhood and Daesh (ISIS /ISIL) associated insurgents in the North Sinai province since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Most prominent among these insurgencies is the, in part foreign-backed Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM).
The insurgency is fighting for the establishment of a State of Sinai (Wilayat Sinai). Egyptian government sources would, however, state that the insurgents do not have the weaponry to shoot down an airliner that flies at an airliner’s cruising altitude.
CH/L – nsnbc 06.11.2015
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2015/11/06/russias-fsb-chief-advised-anti-terrorism-committee-to-halt-flights-to-egypt/
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