ISIS chatter called key in jet bomb theory

“Today is the busiest day in this sense”, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Sunday.

Egypt is a major tourist destination for Russians, and about 80,000 were still in the country as of Saturday, mainly in Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada.

The detection devices used at the hotels appear to be based on those which came to prominence in recent years when a number of people in the United Kingdom were convicted in connection with fake bomb detectors, security analyst Paul Beaver told the Sunday.

Several senior US intelligence, military and national security officials have told CNN about the growing confidence that terrorists bombed the plane.

The alleged bribes system and other lax security measures were routinely denied by Egyptian media, but witnesses continue to allege that the airport is not secure. Russian Federation is now sending empty planes to evacuate tens of thousands of tourists from Egypt’s Red Sea resorts.

Simon Calder, the travel editor of the Independent, told Sky News: “The airlines have a commitment to provide over the coming winter half a million seats, and although of course at the moment the Foreign Office says we do not believe it is safe to fly in and out of Sharm el Sheikh airport except in very specific cases, eventually that is going to be lifted”. Mourners have packed into the landmark St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg for a memorial service for victims of the Russian plane crash, and as a choir sang, the bell of the world’s fourth-largest cathedral was tolling once for each of the 224 victims.

People look at an information board with flight arrival times in Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Saturday, November 7, 2015.

Concerns have been raised over the use of bomb detectors in Sharm el-Sheikh which offer “no protection” against terrorism.

“We don’t know what happened exactly”, he said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the crash, claiming they downed the Airbus A321 by shooting it with a missile.

Mikhail Vishnyakov, a 42-year-old sales manager who attended the service with his family, said he did not want to rush to conclusions about the cause of the plane crash until the investigation was complete.

“If it was a terrorist act, I don’t think it was directed exactly against Russian Federation”.

Dozens of airliners are bringing Russian tourists back home from Egypt, carrying only cabin baggage, while Russian cargo planes were hauling back the rest of their luggage. “It was for a good reason that other countries began to take their tourists from Egypt”, Vishnyakov said.