Russian plane crashes
in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board
Sun, November 1, 2015
By Don Melvin and
Ray Sanchez
A Russian passenger plane crashed early
Saturday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people aboard, officials
said.
Russian state media reported that many
of the 217 passengers on Kogalymavia Flight 9268 were Russians returning from
vacation. The passenger manifest included 17 children but Russian officials
said there were 25 aboard. There were seven crew members.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin
tweeted that four victims were Ukrainian nationals.
The cause of the crash still is unknown,
but it is most likely due to a technical failure, and there is no evidence of
any terrorist action, Egyptian Airports Co. chief Adel Al-Mahjoob told CNN
Arabic.
The Airbus A321 had a routine check
before flight, showing everything was OK to proceed, Mahjoob said.
The so-called black boxes -- the flight
data recorder and voice data recorder -- have been recovered and transported to
Cairo for analysis, Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamel said at a
news conference.
"There was nothing abnormal before
the plane crash," he said. "It suddenly disappeared from the
radar."
Air traffic control recordings did not
show any distress calls, Kamel said.
The plane departed the Red Sea resort of
Sharm el-Sheikh, near the southern tip of the Sinai, on a flight to St.
Petersburg, Russia. It vanished from radar 23 minutes into the flight, at 6:20
a.m. local time.
Egypt has been battling insurgents in
the Sinai aligned with the terrorist group ISIS.
Islamists militants in the Sinai linked
to ISIS claimed responsibility for the crash, according to an online statement.
But Russian Transport Minister Maxim
Sokolov said the claim that terrorists brought down the plane by using an
anti-aircraft missile "cannot be considered reliable," according to
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
German air carrier Lufthansa and Air France
have decided to reroute aircraft due to fly over the region.
"We will keep that measure in place
as long as we are not sure of the circumstances and the reasons of the Metrojet
crash," Lufthansa spokeswoman Bettina Rittberger said.
Structure of the Lead:
WHO- all 224 people on
board
WHEN- November 1, 2015
WHAT-
A Russian passenger plane crashed
WHERE-
in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
WHY-
The cause of the crash still is unknown, but
it is most likely due to a technical failure, and there is no evidence of any
terrorist action
HOW-not given
Keywords:
1. manifest
名單
2. nationals
國民;公民
3. insurgents
叛亂分子
4. missile
導彈
5. reroute
變更路程
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