Egyptian President vows to end terrorism
Airbus A321 “Kogalymavia” flying to St. Petersburg crashed on October 31 Sinai Peninsula about 23 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh. No NTSB personnel are in Egypt to assist authorities there, the spokesman said.
Shortly after Britain’s decision, Russian Federation followed suit as President Vladimir Putin agreed to a recommendation from the Federal Security Service to suspend all flights to Egypt.
Timer according to the television channel was set at two hours.
The head of Cairo’s global airport, Maj.
His claims raise questions about whether previous inspections by British experts missed security flaws at the airport – flaws that only came to light after the Metrojet airliner went down in the Sinai desert, killing all 224 aboard. Security guards and caterers were also being inspected.
The economic woes have forced the government to devaluate the Egyptian pound against dollar in a move seen as an attempt to bring in much-needed foreign investment. The industry had been making a gradual recovery after years of political upheaval since the 2011 popular uprising that deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
That has handed a heavy blow to Egypt’s already-suffering tourism sector, one of the main sources of its national income and foreign currency.
In a TV interview, Sisi urged not to jump to conclusions over the Russian plane crash amid the ongoing investigation.
Both the US and the United Kingdom governments, however, have not ruled out terrorism as a possible cause. He said that the participation of the U.S. in the investigation due to the fact that the fallen aircraft engines were manufactured by the American company Pratt u0026 Whitney.
He added that Russia’s air campaign in Syria will continue regardless of the outcome.
“But on Monday morning we were having breakfast and Thompson must have been putting on extra planes to get people out quickly – we ended up going on a flight on Monday and got home in the early hours of Tuesday”. Around half of the 20,000 Britons who were stranded in the resort have now been flown home.