Crashed Metrojet’s Black Box Voice Recorder is Working: Egyptian Official

Exasperated British tourists who have waited for hours at the Sharm El-Sheikh airport heckled UK Ambassador John Casson after reports of more flight delays and cancellations.

Egypt’s civil aviation minister, Hossam Kamal, said the airport was unable to accommodate more than 120 tonnes of left luggage.

Denmark urged its citizens on Friday to avoid Egypt’s southern Sinai peninsula, including the Sharm el-Sheikh resort, joining a chorus of global warnings in the wake of the crash of a Russian airliner. As investigators pick through the rubble of the Russian airliner, and as Western officials sift through their own intelligence reports, a few have suspected Flight 9268 was brought down by a bomb planted in its hold.

The Department for Transport said a cargo plane, rather than an RAF jet, could begin picking up the 120 tonnes of stranded baggage this weekend.

In this Russian Emergency Situations Ministry photo made from the footage, made available on Friday, November 6, 2015, a Russian Emergency Situations Ministry employee examines damaged seats of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt, on Thursday, November 5, 2015.

Thomson was originally scheduled to operate nine flights, with Monarch, Thomas Cook and Easyjet also hit by cancellations.

The United Kingdom and Ireland grounded flights to Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday, and evacuation of stranded tourists has proved hard.

An Islamic State affiliate has claimed responsibility for the crash of the Airbus A321 operated by a Russian carrier that was bringing holidaymakers home from the Sinai Peninsula resort of Sharm al-Sheikh one week ago.

“You have to defeat the airport security”, Schiff said.

Britain has sent a security team to the Sharm el-Sheikh airport to determine what changes are needed to make travel there safe, but Egypt — which stands to lose millions of dollars from its vital tourism industry — maintains there is nothing wrong with the facility, which each year welcomes thousands of vacationers to the resort beside the crystal-clear Red Sea.

It became more pronounced when it was articulated by British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama, though neither expressed it as a certainly.

Britain said there was a “credible threat” the plane had been brought down by a bomb, but has refused to comment further, citing long-standing rules about disclosing operational details about live investigations.

“Maybe it’s a lithium battery, maybe it’s an explosion, maybe it’s… a mechanical issue”, he said the possible cause of the crash.

Thomson said the incident was not a cause for concern, while the DfT said the flight was not the victim of a terrorist attack, adding that the incident was probably connected to routine exercises being carried out by the Egyptian military.

ASMAA WAGUIH/REUTERS British and Russian passengers line up to leave the Sharm el-Sheikh airport Friday.

The desires of Egypt’s political leaders to minimize the threat of terrorism would nearly certainly set the course of its investigators, he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Friday to suspend Russian flights to Egypt, based on a recommendation from Russia’s Federal Security Service.