Airbus a321 crash flight 9268. A321 crash: versions of the causes of the crash over the Sinai Peninsula. Crew and passengers

On October 30, Airbus 321-231 of Kogalymavia Airlines successfully completed two flights on the route Sharm el-Sheikh - Samara - Sharm el-Sheikh. The PIC's handover crew Dmitry Zhigalkovich and co-pilot Yuri Yushko do not express any comments on the liner. Already in the early morning of October 31, the plane will have two more scheduled flights: Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg - Sharm el-Sheikh. The board is already accepting the following crew: an experienced 48-year-old Valery Nemov, who has flown over 12,000 hours, and 45-year-old co-pilot Sergei Trukhachev, a former military pilot who went through the Chechen campaign.

On board, 217 passengers will be waiting for them, most of them are Petersburgers, many are returning home with their families from a long-awaited vacation in Egypt. At 03:50:06 local time (06:50 Moscow time), flight 7K-9268 takes off from Sharm el-Sheikh, after which, following the air corridor along the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, it begins to climb.

In St. Petersburg, the plane, bypassing the Sinai Peninsula, will have to arrive at 12:10 local time, on a typical Saturday October afternoon, along with dozens of other domestic and international flights listed on the Pulkovo scoreboard. But neither then, nor after several delays that appeared on the scoreboard, the long-awaited flight 9268 did not return to its homeland.

A few days after the catastrophe in the sky over Egypt, Flightradar will publish data on the last flight of the A321 over Sinai. According to a report published on the website, the plane took off safely and began to climb, moving parallel to the coast. Within minutes after the liner turned inland, its altitude begins to plummet to 6,000 feet. Communication with the aircraft is lost. The first media reports that the Kogalymavia Airbus aircraft disappeared from the radar begin to appear only at 10:18 Moscow time. In short news items, the data differ significantly: according to the information contained in them, there were from 207 to 224 people on board. Some reports say the plane went missing in the Larnaca area of Cyprus.

Flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, operated by Airbus 321 "Kogalymavia", took off at 6:21 Moscow time and disappeared from the radar screens after 23 minutes, there were 217 passengers and seven crew members on board, the Federal Air Transport Agency reported.

The count goes on for a moment - two minutes later there is news from the Arab media, which reported that a Russian plane crashed in the central part of the Sinai Peninsula. But the data is still scarce and not backed up by official confirmation. Hope is preserved. At 10:42 am, Reuters and Sky News publish the first reports disproving the plane crash. Sources of publications claim that the crew of the missing aircraft got in touch in Turkey. Flightradar also does not confirm the fall, specifying that the airliner sharply lowered its altitude before disappearing from radar.

The Federal Air Transport Agency reports that they are trying to contact the flight that disappeared from the radar. At 11:44, Pulkovo's online scoreboard still contains information that the flight from Sharm el-Sheikh is delayed (from 12:10 to 12:20). But closer to 12, citing sources in the Federal Air Transport Agency, most of the media publish information about the crash of an airliner over the Sinai Peninsula. In Pulkovo, where by that time the information about the arrival has disappeared from the scoreboard, the emergency headquarters begins operational work, the Russian Emergencies Ministry is preparing two aircraft for shipment to Egypt. Later, the agency decides to send five special aircraft to Egypt.

Search teams discovered the crash site among the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula. The wreckage of the liner was scattered over 13 kilometers.

The search operation took place in difficult conditions: Northern Sinai is a closed zone, for a year now the Egyptian army has been conducting a large-scale operation there against militants of an extremist group associated with ISIS (the activities of the group are prohibited in Russia by a decision of the Supreme Court. - Note. ed.). It was the Egyptian military, patrolling the area, who first discovered the wreckage of the liner. The plane crashed in the An-Nakhal mountain range, a deserted, waterless and deserted place. According to updated and officially confirmed information, there were 224 people on board the aircraft, including seven crew members. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, among the passengers of the liner were 192 adults and 25 children. They all died.

Dear Amalia, 28 years ago you gave the world a wonderful boy. Every mother dreams of such a son and a girl dreams of such a reliable and loving man nearby. A year ago, photographs of all the dead were published, I immediately remembered Armen's face, it attracts the eye with its kind and pure smile, this is the face of a purposeful and very decent young man. I didn't know him, but I'm terribly sorry for Armen. Such boys were obliged to live and give the world beautiful children. But, unfortunately, another world, black and evil, took his life. Strength and health to you. Thank you for being such a son. Insanely sorry ... Blessed memory of Armen and a heavenly birthday. (Tatiana Svetlova, St. Petersburg) - a year after the tragedy, relatives of those killed in the terrible plane crash over Sinai continue to receive such letters.

On October 26, a few days before the plane crash, Armen Vishnev, a native of the city of Pushkin, who served in the Federal Customs Service, turned 27 years old. Armen flew to Egypt to rest, in one of the last messages he asked his mother not to be bored, because the separation would not be long, he promised to bring a magnet or, as a joke, even a whole camel.

A year after the tragedy, Amalia carefully keeps all the photos and messages of her son. Caring residents of other regions of Russia and dozens of other relatives of the victims of the plane crash help her to honor the memory and survive the grief of loss. The tragedy brought together more than 36 thousand people on the Web. Through the efforts of St. Petersburg residents, the Flight 9268 charity foundation was created, which now provides support to people who have lost loved ones in the disaster over Sinai.

The main goal for which we have united is to perpetuate the memory of our relatives in the deeds that we are able to accomplish: the creation of a memorial and a temple, the preservation of memories of our loved ones, helping the families of the victims who need financial, legal and psychological support. Our foundation is not just an attempt to rally around a common cause. This is a protest against terrorism, murder, cruelty and injustice. A great journey starts with a small step. And we are taking this step all together - this is the goal set by people whose lives the tragedy divided into before and after the disaster.

Foundation group in social networks has long become a kind of spontaneous book of memory, where you can find out the latest information about the investigation of the tragedy, see again the photos of all those who did not return home from the ill-fated flight, and also provide all possible assistance to relatives and friends.

And it’s not just about money: any support is valuable, because even after a year, practice shows that time does not heal, and a long investigation and difficult bureaucratic procedures associated with the payment of compensation only exacerbate the already unrelenting pain of loss.

The tragedy cut short the lives of entire families: Olga and Yuri Shein and their three children died in the disaster. The whole country from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok was shocked to the core by the love story of Alexandra Chernova and Yevgeny Yavsin on board the A321: Evgeny specially saved money to take Sasha to Egypt and propose to her there.
And dozens of other life-long stories that ended so unfairly and suddenly on that ill-fated October morning. Most of the passengers of the crashed A321 were residents of the North-West of Russia, mainly from St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Novgorod and Pskov regions. Also on board were four citizens of Ukraine and one citizen of Belarus. Flight 9268" by Irina Zakharova, the remains that are now stored in the crematorium on Shafirovsky Prospekt are not subject to examination. However, the families still have hope to receive fragments of the bodies of their dead relatives: in Egypt, after the completion of the main stage of the investigation, new remains were discovered, they are now being studied.

The report of the international commission investigating the crash of the Russian A321 over Sinai has not yet been made public: experts will tell about the preliminary results of their work (and this is a year after the investigation), according to a source in the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation, "within 60 days."

Certain technical analyzes are now being carried out, after which a preliminary report will be made public, a spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Aviation told the media on October 26.

Recall that representatives of six countries take part in the investigation of the causes of the disaster: Egypt, Russia, as well as specialists from France, Germany, Ireland and the United States. Its course, in accordance with the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is led by the aviation authorities of Egypt.
One of the first versions of the disaster was the assumption that the Russian plane could have been shot down by a missile fired by militants operating in the North Sinai region. However, this assumption was almost immediately refuted by experts as untenable. For a long time, experts worked out another probable cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia airliner - a version of technical problems. This was announced on the day of the crash by the operational services of Egypt following a preliminary examination of the wreckage of the aircraft. At the initial stage of the investigation, Russian specialists were inclined to the same version.

Representatives of Kogalymavia (trademark Metrojet) were the first to refute it: already on November 2, the airline's press secretary Alexander Smirnov ruled out a technical malfunction and pilot error as the causes of the disaster and announced "external influence" on the liner. He stressed that the aircraft, which the airline owned under a lease, was 100% ready to fly and that its crew was "very experienced." The representative of the company supported his speech with certificates received by the airline in early 2015. He also stated that the plane's engine was checked on October 26, five days before the crash.

On November 7, the IAC reported that until the end of recording on the registrars, the flight took place in the normal mode, there was no information about the failures of the aircraft's systems and assemblies.

At a meeting in the Kremlin on November 16, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, officially announced for the first time that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Versions of third-party interference with links to various sources were published earlier in foreign and Russian media. “We can definitely say that this is a terrorist act,” Bortnikov said, adding that traces of a foreign-made explosive were found on the wreckage and things. - According to our experts, an improvised explosive device with a capacity of up to 1 kg of TNT went off on board the aircraft in flight, as a result of which the aircraft fell apart in the air, which explains the dispersion of parts of the aircraft fuselage at a great distance.

Bortnikov explained that the conclusions were made by specialists after a thorough examination of personal belongings, passengers' luggage and parts of the wrecked liner.

At first it was assumed that the explosive device was planted under passenger seat 30A or 31A. However, in September 2016, the data of the commission were made public, according to which the explosion occurred in the tail section, in the oversized baggage compartment. The time bomb was hidden among the baby carriages. Experts came to this conclusion after analyzing the layout of the assembled A321 fragments in the hangar of Cairo airport. Due to the explosion, the aircraft lost its tail section, after which it went into an uncontrolled dive.

The investigation into the tragedy is progressing very slowly, and all the circumstances of the incident are still unknown. Responsibility for the crash of the Russian plane was almost immediately claimed by an Egyptian cell of the Islamic State group banned in Russia. The airport employees could have carried the explosive device on board - numerous testimonies of the weak level of security in the air harbor flooded the Internet immediately after the tragedy: many tourists said that for a small bribe they calmly carried bags with things through all the security cordons, and nobody examined them. However, the Egyptian side for a long time insisted on the version of a technical malfunction, refusing to admit the possibility of a terrorist attack on board the liner. In December 2015, the Technical Investigation Committee released a statement saying that Cairo had found no evidence of terrorist involvement in the Airbus 321 crash. Sinai was a terrorist attack. The head of state stated this at the presentation of a report on the development of the country until 2030.

On August 30, 2016, it was announced that Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who was allegedly the organizer of the attack, had been killed in Aleppo, Syria.

Air traffic with Egypt, which was terminated immediately after the crash of the A321, has not yet been restored. In accordance with the official commentary of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the situation will not change until all the remarks in the field of aviation security are eliminated.

A decision to resume air traffic between Russia and Egypt is possible only after the elimination of all comments in the field of aviation and transport security. It is worth noting that the Egyptian side has made significant progress in resolving these issues and the interaction between the two countries is quite constructive, the department noted on October 25.

The Garden of Memory, which will be located on Rumbolovskaya Hill in Vsevolozhsk, will be completed and fresh flowers will bloom here. the wind will play, anyone who will pass along the Road of Life will see.

On Monday, October 31, a memorial service will be held in St. Isaac's Cathedral for the victims of the A321 crash in the sky over the Sinai Peninsula. In memory of those who never returned home to their relatives and friends, the bell of the cathedral will strike 224 times.

It became known that the main air carriers of France and Germany - Air France and Lufthansa - suspend flights over the Sinai Peninsula. A little earlier, Agence France-Presse reported that the terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the death of the Russian airliner. On the Internet resources of this organization banned in Russia, even photographs appeared, allegedly as proof. True, they posted them half a day after the disaster, and the photographs show a plane from a completely different airline.

The Egyptian authorities categorically reject the possibility of sabotage. The Ministry of Transport of Russia also said that the information cannot be reliable. Experts also say that the "airbus" could not be shot down by a missile from a portable complex - it is simply not capable of climbing so high.

What is known for certain at this point? According to the website "Flytradar", the plane was gaining altitude normally, after which, at the end of its short flight, it suddenly began to decline, and significantly. Every second, he lost 66 meters of height, while sharply losing speed. That is, in fact, the plane stopped, as a car stops, the driver of which takes his foot off the gas pedal - and, like a stone, vertically collapsed to the ground. Question: why? Maybe the pilot is inexperienced or the equipment is old? In "Kogalymavia" they say - no, the pilots are high-class, but the plane was in order. The A321 is one of the most reliable aircraft, 18 and a half years old is the prime of life for it. And a year ago, the EI-ETJ board passed the so-called heavy maintenance, during which the aircraft is thoroughly checked.

"Commander Valery Yuryevich Nemov has more than 12 thousand flight hours, that is, this person is certainly experienced. Of these, more than 3,800 flight hours are on this type of aircraft. The aircraft is fully operational, its airworthiness certificate was updated in 2015 by the Irish authorities , since the plane is with Irish registration. From the technical point of view, the plane is completely, one hundred percent, airworthy," said Oksana Golovina, a representative of the Kogalymavia airline.

Could something be poured into a flight-year liner that it did not digest? To find out, the transport prosecutor's office seizes fuel samples at Samara airport. The last time before being sent to Egypt, the plane was refueled there.

The weather, often the cause of plane crashes, this time had nothing to do with it: it was good.

The analogy with the infamous Germanwings, whose pilot deliberately crashed the plane, is also completely swept aside. The crew reported some problems and requested an emergency landing, that is, they tried to save themselves and people. But what could happen in the sky over Sinai?

According to Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, the technical version associated with the failure of engines or other systems on board the aircraft, which led to the crash, is considered as a priority.

"If we allow a targeted impact on an aircraft, or a version related to a terrorist attack, this could be beneficial to those who want to sow chaos and terror. Various radical groups are active in the region, there is not only ISIS, there are others who could be interested in such a development of the situation," Igor Korotchenko said.

The Airbus was flying over a troubled region: the conflict in the Sinai Peninsula between the Islamists and the Egyptian authorities has been going on for several years. The Egyptian authorities categorically ruled out the possibility of shelling the liner. But Lufthansa and Air France, having learned about the disaster, suspended flights in this zone - an eloquent fact.

The fact that the crew mysteriously fell silent speaks in favor of some external influence - having transmitted a message about problems, but without explaining anything, it did not get in touch again, and the fact that the plane most likely fell apart in the air. The bodies of the dead are found within a radius of 5 kilometers. So could it be a terrorist attack?

"I do not exclude the version of a terrorist attack. For such an aircraft, a lot is not needed in principle. It is enough to put something in the luggage - and complete depressurization in the end can lead to no one knows what," said Viktor Zabolotsky, Honored Test Pilot of the Soviet Union .

Theoretically, they could put a bomb on the plane. But then what about the technical problems reported by the crew? Couldn't they have requested an emergency landing in Cairo after the plane exploded? What is the nature of the malfunction that concerned the crew is still not really clear. There were reports of broken radios. But that doesn't make the planes crash.

"There simply can't be a failure of radio communication, because there are 2 VHF - receiving and transmitting stations. 2 VHF on any aircraft of this type: ours, and Turkish, and French. Two cannot immediately fail. They can only in the event of a complete power failure. But there are batteries, there is an emergency tire, and then one of the stations would work on the battery without problems,” says Vitaly Zhiltsov, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR.

It is possible that the problem with radio communications, if it existed in any form, could be the result of some more serious problem, which led to the tragedy. But what is it? There is information that in the last days before the fatal flight, the crews repeatedly complained about the operation of the engine. But even if he refused, the "Airbus" has two of them.

“With one engine that has failed, the plane can quite easily fly in the horizon, and fly to the same Cairo, and land. Moreover, it even gains altitude on one engine. It was said a lot that there were problems with the engines. But if they there were, and there were complaints officially recorded in the "technical book", in the logbook, then naturally there should be some kind of action after that. The plane does not just take off in the air. So there were permits for the operation of this aircraft, "says the honored pilot Russian Viktor Sazhenin.

There are many versions, but in any case, all of them are still only versions, and no more. Conclusions, apparently, should not be expected soon. Investigation of air crashes is not a quick process, and it remains only to be patient.

Putin is using the Russian A321 crash as an excuse to step up his strikes against ISIS.

The A321 crash over the Sinai Peninsula is an aviation accident that occurred on October 31, 2015 over the central part of the Sinai Peninsula and became one of the largest in the history of world aviation. The largest aviation disaster in the history of Egypt and the Airbus A320 family. The most massive death of Russian citizens in a plane crash. Airliner Airbus A321 of the Russian company "Kogalymavia" (trademark "Metrojet") was chartered by the tourist operator Brisco and operated a charter flight Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg. 23 minutes after departure, radio contact was lost with the crew, and the liner itself disappeared from radar. Egyptian government search parties found the wreckage of the plane near the town of Nekhel. All 224 people on board (including 25 children and 7 crew members) died.

The reported technical problems were indeed there, though not due to an oversight by the airline's mechanics. It was not a bomb and the plane was not shot down by ISIS terrorists. We have warned that air travel will be increasingly dangerous, and that when flying over regions where rock is under compression pressure, especially if it is underwater, the electromagnetic pulse is amplified. separates the Sinai peninsula from the lands on either side of it, which will eventually lead to a 50-mile gap. Flight 9268 was primarily passing over the Sinai Peninsula when it crashed, technical failures caused problems with the fuel supply, resulting in an explosion.

10/31/15. The first reports of a plane crash dated October 31. "The pilot of the missing Russian plane flying Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, after takeoff, requested a re-routing and landing at Cairo airport due to technical problems, RIA Novosti reports citing a source at Sharm el-Sheikh airport. As According to sources at the airport, the liner was at an altitude of more than 9,000 meters when the ship's commander contacted the dispatchers and requested a landing due to a breakdown of the radio station.

To their credit, the heads of various states whose airlines may be affected by EMP from Nibiru's charged tail are taking steps to avoid air crash victims. The airline business and the tourism business can go to hell. Profit is not as important as people's lives. The latest Newsletter features a list of spectacular EMP plane crashes with ridiculous explanations from the official stories. Pilot error or suicide, bad weather, all despite the obvious electromagnetic problems.

On November 4, the aviation authorities of Great Britain and Ireland banned their airlines from flying over the Sinai Peninsula and to Sharm el-Sheikh. On November 5, German airlines announced the cancellation of flights to Sharm el-Sheikh. France, the Netherlands and Belgium warned their citizens against flying to Sharm el-Sheikh; Turkish Airlines announced the cancellation of night flights to Sharm El Sheikh. On November 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the suggestion of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, decided to suspend air traffic with Egypt "until the proper level of air traffic security is established."

The Sinai disaster was not caused by a bomb, as the plane was damaged long before the explosion. The electromagnetic pulse leads to both a voltage drop and a voltage surge, thus the fuel supply first slowed down and then increased to hyperactivity, similar to the overload of transformers at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in 2009. As a result, an explosion occurred on board. Sweden reported a radar shutdown, Britain and Russia suspect the presence of a bomb on board, but whatever the reason, which is the zone from Scandinavia to Kazakhstan, and the English Channel, and the vast Mediterranean Sea, and the Sinai region. They will ask NASA for accurate reports on any evidence of momentum near the Earth, then quickly blame it on the Sun.

09.11.15. A British Airways plane that suffered an engine failure in mid-flight returned to Heathrow Airport. None of the passengers were injured. On the plane, one of the engines was switched off due to a fuel leak. The crew discovered an emergency situation when the liner was over the English Channel. The pilots decided to turn the plane around and land it at London Airport with one engine running.

11/05/15. The kingdom has established a commission to investigate the reasons for the failure of civil aviation control systems. On Thursday, November 5, in the afternoon, the radars of the southern part of Sweden, including the Stockholm airports Arlanda and Bromma, as well as Gothenburg - Landvetter, refused to work. As a result, there have been numerous disruptions to air traffic schedules that have affected thousands of air passengers. "At the same time, the changes in 'space weather' have been pretty ordinary," Kiruna-based Urban Brendström of the Institute of Space Physics told Radio Sweden Ekot news editorial. According to him, the strength of the geomagnetic storm was minimal - 1 point, while the radars of only civil aviation were out of order. In addition, the "solar storm" did not affect the countries neighboring Sweden.

11/05/15. At least 17,000 residents of St. Petersburg were left without electricity due to the shutdown of power plants in Avtovo, RIA Novosti reports. Houses in the Vasileostrovsky and Kirovsky districts of the city were without electricity. This was due to the equipment shutdown at the Avtovskaya CHPP.

09.11.15. The collapse of two residential buildings in Egypt killed ten people. The tragedy occurred in the small town of El Fayoum, southwest of Cairo. Due to the floods last week, most cities and towns in northern Egypt were flooded. The first floors of buildings, city embankments and highways were completely in the water. Mudflows also affected the province of Bahariya, as a result of which an entire village was washed away. Authorities managed to save 75 people. 20 residential buildings were completely destroyed in Alexandria. It is reported that at the moment 25 residents of the country have become victims of the disaster.

The A321 was clearly affected before the alleged bomb went off, as it changed course while flying over the Gulf of Aqaba and headed for Cairo, slowing down for a few minutes and reporting technical problems. Do bombs explode slowly? The fuel supply system was damaged by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), it slowed down and there was not enough fuel to flow. Then a reverse process took place in the impulse, which accelerated the engines to overheating, and together with the injected fuel, this led to an explosion. Both now and in the future, any excuse will be used to cancel aircraft flights or avoid EMP areas, but no recognition of EMP should be expected.

On Tuesday, November 17, the cause of the A321 plane crash in Egypt became known. As the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a bomb went off on board the crashed aircraft. This is an improvised explosive device.

Putin is using the Russian A321 crash as an excuse to step up his strikes against ISIS. Wasn't France just a year ago refusing to supply a warship to Russia, citing the conflict in Ukraine? And suddenly, as a result of the attack on Paris, France and Russia became partners in the fight against ISIS. Of course, Russia is also an ISIS target, so Putin doesn't need any excuse to step up his strikes, but why should they be accelerated now? It is understood that during the G20 summit, Putin and Obama discussed this in private. Both Putin and Obama are ready to announce the impending passage of Nibiru and want to end ISIS by then.

On October 31, 2015, the Russian Airbus A321 aircraft of Kogalymavia (Metrojet) operating flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg,.

On behalf of the President, the Russian government in connection with the disaster, headed by the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov. The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) was under the leadership of the executive director of the committee, Viktor Sorochenko.

Cairo immediately after the disaster about the opportunity to take part in the investigation of the tragedy. A special commission of inquiry was created, in it: Russia, Egypt, France (the state of the aircraft developer), Germany (the state of the liner manufacturer) and Ireland (the state of registration). Ayman al-Muqaddam was appointed head of the commission to investigate the disaster.

On November 1, 2015, Egyptian Attorney General Nabil Ahmed Sadeq involved Russian specialists in the investigation into the causes of the crash with the Russian aircraft in the Sinai Peninsula.

A group of investigators and forensic experts from the central office of the Investigative Committee of Russia, in agreement with the competent authorities and together with representatives of the Republic of Egypt, in accordance with the norms of national and international law, participated in the inspection of the crash site in Egypt.

On November 17, 2015, the head of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bortnikov, during a meeting in the Kremlin on the results of the investigation into the causes of the crash of the Russian plane, that as a result of the study of personal belongings, luggage and parts of the plane that crashed in Egypt, traces of a foreign-made explosive were found. He .

In turn, the Egyptian authorities urged not to rush to conclusions. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said that as part of a criminal investigation.

In March 2016, the International Commission for the Investigation of the Crash of the Russian Aircraft A321 that it received an official report from the Investigative Committee of Russia and handed it over to the Egyptian Prosecutor General's Office to complete legal procedures. The commission itself, despite the transfer of the case to the investigating authorities of the state security of the country, continued the technical examination of the wreckage of the liner.

In mid-April, Egypt's Attorney General Nabil Sadeq announced that the case of the Russian plane crash was transferred to the country's High Prosecutor's Office for State Security. The decision of the head of the supervisory agency, noted in the text of the statement, was made on the basis of data from the report of the Investigative Committee of Russia, "which indicates the suspicion of a criminal trace."

In June, CIA Director John Brennan, speaking in the US Senate, that American intelligence has information about the involvement in the explosion on the Russian passenger plane A321 of the Egyptian group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which swore allegiance to the terrorist movement "Islamic State" banned in many countries (an organization banned in the Russian Federation), and on August 4, the Egyptian Ministry of Defense announced the liquidation of the leader of this terrorist group.

At the insistence of the Investigative Committee of Russia, the International Commission for the Investigation of the Aviation Accident. As a result of the work carried out, the fact of the impact of high-energy elements on the aircraft skin in the "inside-out" direction and "explosive decompression" in flight was established.

In October 2016, a commission of inquiry formed by the Egyptian Attorney General's Office sent twelve of the wreckage to the Alloys Science Laboratory for detailed examination.

Work to determine the causes of the crash. Until now, the parties have no understanding of what happened to the plane, how the explosive device got on board the plane, who carried it. Also, there are no identified suspects and their accomplices from among the employees of the airport.

On October 31, 2015, a Russian Airbus A321 of Kogalymavia (Metrojet) operating flight 9268 from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

There were 224 people on board the aircraft, including 217 passengers (58 men, 134 women and 25 children - of which 212 people are citizens of the Russian Federation, four people are citizens of Ukraine, one citizen of Belarus) and seven crew members.

The plane flew mostly residents of St. Petersburg. Residents of neighboring regions also returned to Russia - the Leningrad Region, Novgorod, Pskov, Karelia, several people from other subjects of the Federation. All on board were killed. The disaster was the largest in the history of Russian and Soviet aviation.

The Airbus-A321 aircraft of the Kogalymavia airline (Metrojet), in which the Brisco tour operator, flew from Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) to St. Petersburg on October 31 at 06.51 Moscow time and disappeared from the radar screens after 23 minutes. According to the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority, the liner followed at an altitude of 9.4 kilometers, then dropped sharply by 1.5 kilometers, after which it disappeared from radar.

The fate of the aircraft was not reported long enough. The liner disappeared from radar screens in the Cyprus region, so for half an hour they could not determine the exact location of a possible crash.

Egyptian military aviation was there to search for the Russian aircraft. Israel Defense Forces services of Egypt, sending its reconnaissance aircraft to participate in the search operation.

The wreckage of A321 was found in the center of the Sinai Peninsula in the mountains between the areas of El-Kantala and El-Laksim near the city of Al-Hasna. To identify the aircraft, Egyptian emergency services were sent to the place of detection, where a large-scale search and rescue operation was carried out.

In agreement with Cairo, a grouping of forces and means of the Russian Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations (RSChS) in the amount of more than one thousand people and 250 units of equipment was involved in the elimination of the consequences of the crash of the liner, of which more than 660 people and 100 units were from the Russian Emergencies Ministry technicians, as well as psychologists EMERCOM of Russia.

Search operations were organized on the spot using unmanned aerial vehicles and space monitoring data, more than 40 square kilometers of the territory were examined.

On the day of the crash, two A321 airborne emergency recorders were also found in Cairo - speech and parametric.

In connection with the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared mourning in the country on November 1, 2015. The authorities of St. Petersburg until November 3, and the Leningrad region - until November 4.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on the fact of the crash of a Russian aircraft in Egypt was first under the article "Violation of the rules of flights and preparation for them", then another one under the article "Performance of work or provision of services that do not meet safety requirements." Later they were in the same production.

Cairo immediately after the disaster, all interested countries about the opportunity to participate in the investigation of the tragedy. A special one was created, it included specialists from five countries: Russia, Egypt, France (the state of the aircraft developer), Germany (the state of the liner manufacturer) and Ireland (the state of registration). Ayman al-Muqaddam was appointed head of the commission to investigate the disaster.

November 1, 2015 Egyptian Attorney General Nabil Ahmed Sadeq in an investigation into the causes of the crash with a Russian plane in the Sinai Peninsula. According to the Russian Ambassador to Cairo, Sergei Kirpichenko, Russia and Egypt have, according to which Russian specialists have access to almost everywhere they want to go as part of the investigation of the A321 crash.

The head of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bortnikov, during a meeting in the Kremlin on the results of the investigation into the causes of the crash of the Russian plane, said that as a result of the study of personal belongings, luggage and parts of the plane that crashed in Egypt, traces of a foreign-made explosive were found. It happened like a terrorist attack.

In turn, the Egyptian authorities. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said that this criminal case considers the attack as one of the versions.

In March 2016, the International Commission to Investigate the Crash of the Russian Aircraft A321 announced that it was from the Russian Investigative Committee and handed it over to the Egyptian Prosecutor General's Office to complete legal procedures. The commission itself, despite the transfer of the case to the investigating authorities of the state security of the country, will continue the technical examination of the wreckage of the liner.

In mid-April, Egypt's Attorney General Nabil Sadeq reported on the crash of a Russian plane to the country's Supreme State Security Prosecutor's Office. The decision of the head of the supervisory agency, noted in the text of the statement, was made on the basis of data from the report of the Investigative Committee of Russia, "which indicates the suspicion of a criminal trace."

In June, CIA Director John Brennan, speaking in the US Senate, said that American intelligence about the involvement in the explosion on the Russian passenger plane A321 of the Egyptian group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, who swore allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist movement banned in many countries, (ISIS), and on August 4, the Egyptian Ministry of Defense announced the liquidation of the leader of this terrorist group.

On August 28, the commission for the investigation of the crash began "laying out" fragments of the aircraft structure in an aviation hangar in the city of Cairo, where they were delivered from the crash site. after its completion, the point was determined from which the destruction of the hull of the liner began.

According to media reports, when analyzing the calculations of the assembled fragments of the A321 in the hangar of the Cairo airport, experts that the terrorists placed an explosive device in the tail of the vessel, the explosion caused the separation of the tail section and an uncontrolled dive. According to them, Russia has almost completed a report on the causes of the disaster, unequivocally pointing to a terrorist trail: a powerful explosive device with a clockwork was used, which provoked a strong blast wave and fire.

Investigation into the crash of the Russian A321 over the Sinai Peninsula. On October 24, it became known that a commission of inquiry formed by the Egyptian Attorney General's Office sent twelve of the wreckage of the liner to an alloy science laboratory for a detailed study.

After the disaster, flights to Egypt from the Russian Federation and the tourist flow were. Russia announced the need to ensure security at Egyptian airports in order to resume air traffic between the countries. Flights to this country have also been suspended by a number of European airlines. The Egyptian authorities are making great efforts to improve security measures in resort areas and airports, wanting to restore the flow of tourists. In the months that have passed since the tragedy, many foreign expert delegations have visited Cairo, Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh with the security inspection of Egyptian airports.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources