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24 Nov 2015

Easyjet cancels Sharm el-Sheikh flights until new year

British budget airline Easyjet Tuesday said it had cancelled all flights to and from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh until next year over security doubts raised by the downing of a Russian jet.

07 Nov 2015

Russian plane wreckage to be moved to Cairo

The wreckage of Russian plane will be recovered to a safe and secure place in Cairo for further examination of each part.

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07 Nov 2015

Russian plane black boxes point to 'attack'

Black box data from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt last week indicate it was bombed, sources said, ahead of a first update on saturday from the Egyptian- led probe into the disaster. Both the flight data and voice recorders failed 24 minutes after the plane took off from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort en route to Saint Petersburg on October 31, when it plummeted from the sky into the Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 people on board.

06 Nov 2015

Obama, Cameron say bomb may have caused Egypt plane crash

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has claimed responsibility for the disaster, in which the jet crashed minutes after taking off.

05 Nov 2015

Islamic State bomb may have brought down Russian plane in Egypt

Islamic State has asked the West that the bomb was not planted by the Caliphate.

04 Nov 2015

Russian jet may have been downed by 'explosive device': UK

UK Prime Minister David Cameron's office said that the Russian plane may have been brought down by an explosive device.

Russian jet crash

03 Nov 2015

Experts begin examining black boxes of crashed Russian jet

Investigators began their examination on Tuesday of the two black boxes from the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt plane crash

03 Nov 2015

'No direct evidence of terrorism in Egypt crash'

Both Cairo and Moscow have played down a claim from the Islamic State that it brought down the aircraft.

02 Nov 2015

Russian airline rules out 'technical fault', blames crash on 'external' factor

The Russian airline Kogalymavia blamed "external activity" for its plane crash on Saturday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula in which all 224 people on board were killed.

Russian plane crash

01 Nov 2015

Russian plane that crashed in Egypt 'broke up in the air', says aviation official

The Russian passenger jet crash on Saturday killed all 224 people travelling from Egypt's resort Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint-Petersburg.

Russian jet crash

01 Nov 2015

Doomed Russian jet suffered 'tail strike' in 2001

The doomed Russian plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula had suffered "sustained damage" during a "tail strike" incident.

Russian jet crash

01 Nov 2015

Investigators probe Russian jet crash in Egypt amid IS claims; black boxes recovered

International investigators on Sunday began probing the crash of a Russian Airbus plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

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31 Oct 2015

Russian airliner crashes in Egypt: As it happened

Russian airliner

31 Oct 2015

Russian plane with 224 people onboard crashes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula

A Russian airliner crashed today in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, the office of the prime minister said in a statement.

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