British tourists want to go back to Sharm el Sheikh

The Thomson Airways jet with 189 people aboard took off from London and was headed to the Red Sea resort, according to The Guardian.

Islamic State militants fighting security forces in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula have said they brought down the aircraft as revenge for Russian air strikes against Islamist fighters in Syria, where the group control large areas in the east and north of the country.

“A noise was heard in the last second” on the voice recorder, he said, adding: “A spectral analysis will be carried out by specialised labs in order to identify the nature of this sound”.

Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said Saturday the USA and United Kingdom intelligence agencies have not shared with Egypt their information about a flash of light that might point to an explosion bringing down the plane.

“All the scenarios are out on the table”, he said, CNN reported.

Almost 2,000 British holidaymakers stranded in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh were returning home Saturday after days of uncertainty following the Sinai plane crash.

Egypt is heavily reliant on tourism and feared the effect on the industry of any firm determination that a bomb caused the crash.

Also on November 7, Egypt’s foreign minister complained that Western governments had not sufficiently helped Egypt in its war on terrorism.

Today’s update follows reports that in August, a British passenger jet flying into Sharm el-Sheikh had taken evasive action after a missile passed within 1,000 feet of the airliner.

“We expected that the information provided on a technical level would be provided to us on a technical level, instead of it being released to the media in this public manner”.

“Upon landing into Sharm el-Sheikh, an initial assessment was conducted and the event was immediately reported to the UK Department for Transport (DfT) in line with established protocol”.

In charge of the main crash investigation are Egyptian officials, but they told the press that no conclusion has been established yet. There were angry scenes as thousands more who had hoped to fly home were sent back to their hotels after Egypt placed restrictions on the number of repatriation flights.

The wreckage of the Russian plane which crashed in Egypt’s Sinai will be moved to the capital Cairo, the head of the Egypt-led investigation committee told reporters in a news conference on Saturday.