Airbus says no technical fault yet found for Egypt crash

All 224 passengers and crew were killed when the plane crashed in Sinai on the way to St Petersburg, Russian Federation on October 31. Over the past two years, commentators have often accused the US of supporting the Brotherhood, which has been declared a terrorist organization, and trying to impose it on Egypt, in response to Western criticism of Morsi’s ouster by the military and the subsequent crackdown on Islamists.

A Monarch spokesman said: “We recognise this is a very frustrating situation and apologise for the inconvenience this is causing our customers”. “We halted the flights to Egypt without knowing the definitive version, we did it preventively, out of caution”, Ivanov said.

British officials have been criticized by Russian Federation and Egypt for suggesting that a bomb caused the crash before investigations are complete, but Hammond said he was speaking on the basis of intelligence he had received. USA law enforcement officials told CNN that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is already offering limited support but has no plans to send a team to the region.

A faction of the militant Islamic State group claimed it had downed the airliner in retaliation for Russian Federation launching airstrikes on IS positions in Syria a month earlier.

Other commentators went further, hinting at a few sort of collusion or at least a mutual interest between Britain and the Islamic State extremists. That’s prompted questions about the claim among observers, considering ISIS’ tendency to publicize its acts for propaganda value. Sources said there were varying amounts of detail in the chatter that make it “more likely than not” the terror group was involved.

British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond echoed that view on Tuesday when he told reporters in Washington that the U.K.is not aware of any explosive device having been found by Russian or Egyptian investigators, though he acknowledged that the United Kingdom has no access to the progress of the investigation.

At the biennial airshow in Dubai, Airbus officials say the company is confident in the safety of its A321 aircraft, including the plane that crashed in Egypt.

Ayman Moqadden, an Egyptian official who heads an investigation panel, confirmed on Saturday that a mysterious noise was heard on the recorder seconds prior to the blast.

The crash might have been caused by a lithium battery or a mechanical issue, Muqaddam said.

Russia is considering the possibility of a terrorist attack behind the crash of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt as new evidence has emerged.

About 25,000 people were flown back to Russian Federation over the weekend, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said, RBC reported.

Inspectors will likely look not only at whether security measures have been improved, but also how they may have been breached. The others were of Ukrainian, Belarusian or unconfirmed citizenship.

British tour operators and airlines have stopped selling cheap last-minute holidays to Sharm el-Sheikh in the wake of the tragedy.