Stranded tourists desperate to flee Egypt after plane crash

Yaalon said he “would be surprised” if a planted explosive device did not cause the crash. “We are continuing to work with the Egyptian authorities and the airlines on this”, the spokeswoman said.

Russian Federation and Egypt said the statements were premature pending results of the official crash probe.

“Egypt has already accepted the application of American investigators that are associated with the manufacturers of the engine to become part of the investigative team, and they are free to incorporate any advisers they deem as necessary for them to undertake the responsibility”, Shoukry said.

KLM spokeswoman Gedi Schrijver says three security guards will be in Cairo along with sniffer dogs to check baggage.

Egypt risks losing important tourist revenue if security concerns stop people from flying to its Red Sea resort at Sharm el Sheik.

Tunisia’s government is increasing security measures at airports and on airplanes after last month’s crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt, amid mounting suspicion that it could have been downed by a bomb. “The tourism industry is very fragile”. Russians have accounted for about a third of all Egypt’s tourists in recent years.

It said it will strengthen control of all planes entering Tunisian airspace, and will start checking all Tunisian planes that return from overseas before allowing passengers aboard.

“The Egyptians are tackling the unsafe terrorism called ISIS (Islamic State) in Sinai”, he said.

“But we need to wait for the conclusion of the investigations”, Bregier said at the Dubai Airshow.

All 224 passengers and crew were killed when the plane crashed in the desert on the way to St. Petersburg, Russia.

Qatar Airways, the second largest carrier in the Middle East, has stopped flying along the Sinai border on routes to Cyprus and Lebanon since the crash.

The head of Cairo’s global airport, Maj.

A leading airline predicted the disaster will lead to stringent aviation security worldwide.

The inspection is to end on Thursday.

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

Britain and the United States, as well as worldwide investigators, suspect a bomb exploded on board, but Egyptian officials insist there is no evidence yet of an attack on the plane.

Russian Federation halted flights to Egypt on November 6 until the reasons for the A321 charter plane’s crash over Sinai on October 31 are fully established.

President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said on a visit to Finland that it would be impossible to radically revise Egypt’s security system in a short time, according to Russian news reports.

Russian Federation will need two more weeks to bring the remaining tourists back home, he told Medvedev at the meeting.

We can see that Sharm still has tourists from various countries, a few of whom went ahead with their trips in spite of the plane crash, and who seem determined to stay in spite of their governments’ security warnings.