UK Airline Refused Permission To Fly To Egypt

Russia confirmed on 6 November that it will suspend all flights to Egypt and will draft a plan to get its stranded citizens back home in the wake of a suspected terrorist attack on a Russian passenger plane.

Militants from the Sinai Province group, linked to IS, have not said how they destroyed the plane.

He said the move would affect all Russian airlines flying into and out of Egypt. All 224 people on board were killed in what has become the biggest tragedy in Russian and Soviet civil aviation history.

Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands also suspended flights to the resort.

The Russian news agency also quoted a Russian official’s suggestion that all Russian flights to Egypt, the plane’s origin, should be stopped until the cause of the plane crash is determined.

But on Wednesday Mr Cameron said it was “more likely than not” that a bomb had downed the plane.

“I would like to explain the following: [Russia’s Federal Security Service chief] Alexander Bortnikov referred to Putin recommendations of the National Anti-terrorist Committee to suspend air service with Egypt and the president agreed with these recommendations”, Peskov said.

Egypt’s aviation minister, Hossam Kamal, said only eight out of 29 flights would take off because the airport could not cope with all the luggage left behind.

USA intelligence officials are reportedly basing part of a theory that ISIS planted a bomb on a Russian passenger plane on warning calls that were made between ISIS members in Egypt, according to The Daily Beast.

Tens of thousands of travellers are struggling to return home from Red Sea resorts including Sharm el-Sheikh, where the flight originated.

“I think there is a possibility that there was a bomb on board and we are taking that very seriously”, President Obama said last night.

Tensions were high and an irate British tourist, who had waited at the airport since early morning hours, harangued UK Ambassador John Casson with angry shouts of: “When are we going home?”

SkyNews reports intelligence acquired by the United Kingdom government’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre points to someone with access to the aircraft’s baggage compartment.

Customers will not be able to take any hold luggage with them on any of the flights.

Before Friday, the Kremlin had said firmly it was too early to say what caused the crash and that all theories, including the possibility of technical failure, should be examined by the official investigation.