Investigator Says Bomb Downed Russian Federation Plane in Egypt

European investigators said last week after studying the doomed plane’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder that the blast was not an accident.

The American network NBC, quoting unnamed U.S. officials, said that communications had been intercepted between IS officials in Syria and people on Sinai about how the jet had been brought down.

Egypt has dismissed a claim from Islamic State jihadists that they brought down the plane, and on Saturday the head of its investigative committee said the cause of the crash was still not clear.

According to The Telegraph, the investigation of hotel staff in Sharm el-Sheikh is to determine if one of them planted a bomb inside a passenger’s luggage before they boarded the plane.

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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.

The Islamic State group-affiliated Wilayat Sinai has boasted that it was its operative that downed the plane, and while that has yet to be ascertained, US intelligence officials said that American intelligence agencies had intercepted chatter that warned of “something big in the Sinai area” just prior to the October 31 crash. Putin ordered organisation of support to Russian nationals’ return home from Egypt. From 10p.m. Moscow time on Friday, all regular, transit and chartered flights from Russia to Egypt, carrying passengers, were suspended.

After Britain published that the reasons caused the Russian plane to crash in Sinai, it is now announced that at noon (Friday) Britain will send 29 planes to bring back British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh.

A woman mourns near flowers and candles left in memory of the victims of the Russian MetroJet Airbus A321 accident in Sinai, Egypt, in Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, November 4, 2015. “We are continuing to work with the Egyptian authorities and the airlines on this”, the spokeswoman said.

Thomson said: “Following the recent change in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice advising against all but essential air travel to Sharm el-Sheikh, Thomson Airways has taken the decision to extend the cancellation of all outbound flights to Sharm el Sheikh up to and including Wednesday 25th November 2015”.

Dozens of special flights were put on for tourists wanting to go home.

“We have imposed a few very significant increased security requirements for flights to the United Kingdom out of Sharm”, he told Sky News.