No Survivors After Russian Airplane With 224 On Board Crashes In Egypt's Sinai, ISIS Claims Responsibility
Update:
Breaking: #IS claims responsibility for #Russia's plane crash in #Egypt pic.twitter.com/wNx7asGm40
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) October 31, 2015
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With tensions already at deeply concerning levels between Russians and their various adversaries in the Middle East region, a few hours ago this Saturday morning, around 4:20am GMT to be precise, a Russian airliner carrying 224 in crew and passengers, including 138 women, 62 men and 17 children, crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. Egyptian officials say there are no survivors from the crash. This is the worst Russian air accident in history.
The Airbus A321 shown below, also known as Kolavia Flight 7K9268, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak.
EI-ETJ is an Airbus A321 that belongs to airline Kolavia/Metrojet. Age 18 years
https://t.co/EVPhMQGOoK
#7K9268 pic.twitter.com/XUTMgx2zNn
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) October 31, 2015
The aircraft took off at 5:51 a.m. Cairo time (0351 GMT) and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes later, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. It was at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 meters) when it vanished from radar screens. According to various flight tracking services the aircraft, having made an apparently smooth take off, lurched into a rapid descent shortly after approaching cruising altitude.
Airbus has confirmed the crash:
Airbus regrets to confirm that an A321-200 operated by Metrojet was involved in an accident shortly after 6:17 local time (04:17 GMT) over the Sinai Peninsula today. The aircraft was operating a scheduled service, Flight 7K-9268 from Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) to St. Petersburg (Russia).
The concerns and sympathy of the Airbus employees go to all those affected by this tragic accident of Flight 7K-9268.
The aircraft involved in the accident, registered under EI-ETJ was MSN (Manufacturer Serial Number) 663, was produced in 1997 and since 2012 operated by Metrojet. The aircraft had accumulated some 56000 flight hours in nearly 21000 flights. It was powered by IAE-V2500 engines. At this time no further factual information is available.
In line with ICAO annex 13, an Airbus go-team of technical advisors stands-by ready to provide full technical assistance to French Investigation Agency – BEA – and to the Authorities in charge of the investigation.
The A321-200 is the largest member of the Airbus twin-engine A320 Family seating up to 240 passengers. The first A321 entered service in January 1994. By the end of September 2015, some 6500 A320 Family aircraft were in service with over 300 operators. To date, the entire fleet has accumulated some 168 million flight hours in some 92.5 million flights.
A loop of the flight's brief flight before crashing is shown below:
RT @flightradar24: Looping playback of #7K9268. Last data recorded at 04:13:22 UTC https://t.co/YGvJ7T0VMG pic.twitter.com/vkMDw93yzX
— Eric Lewis (@SubEWL) October 31, 2015
The aircraft was descending rapidly at about 6,000 (2,000 meters) feet per minute before the signal was lost to air traffic control.
Speed / Alt plotted on graph. Speed (purple) drops off before we lost contact at 04:13:10z #7K9268 pic.twitter.com/yhJSZ1Dclw
— Plane Finder (@planefinder) October 31, 2015
Raw data shows plane EI-ETJ had entered a steep descent. #7K9268 Download here https://t.co/Un19KvW1re pic.twitter.com/hlQ4X9URVL
— Plane Finder (@planefinder) October 31, 2015
A cabinet statement said Egyptian military planes had spotted wreckage of the plane in the Hassana area, south of Arish. The statement said: "Military planes have discovered the wreckage of the plane in a mountainous area and 45 ambulance have been directed to the site to evacuate dead and wounded."
People gather at the airline information desk at of Russian airline Kogalymaviaís desk.
The crash scene is a disaster.
"I now see a tragic scene," an Egyptian security officer at the scene told Reuters by telephone. "A lot of dead on the ground and many who died whilst strapped to their seats.
"The plane split into two, a small part on the tail end that burned and a larger part that crashed into a rock. We have extracted at least 100 bodies and the rest are still inside," the officer, who requested anonymity, said.
Emergency services and aviation specialists quickly began an inspection of the wreckage for any patterns of damage that could point to the cause. One of two flight recorders was quickly found, but wreckage was scattered over a wide area.
The security officer said 120 intact bodies had been found. Express adds that other bodies were also found strapped in to their seats after rescue teams searched the crash site.
No photos or footage of the crash site because of media blackout by the army in Sinai since 2013. https://t.co/QS9gjtpGIl
— Dalia Ezzat (@DaliaEzzat_) October 31, 2015
The full roster of passengers on the doomed flight can be found here.
Since accidents at cruising altitude are one of the rarest categories of accidents (but also among the most deadly, accounting for 13 percent of fatal incidents), the immediate question on everyone's mind - was the plane shot down from the ground? So far there are no clue as to what caused the crash. Sinai is the scene of an insurgency by militants close to Islamic State, who have killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police and have also attacked Western targets in recent months.
Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, launched air raids against opposition groups in Syria including Islamic State on Sept. 30.
Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail was heading to the crash site in the Hassana area 35 km (22 miles) south of the Sinai Mediterranean coastal city of Al Arish with several cabinet ministers on a private jet, the tourism ministry said.
Russian television showed film of anxious relatives and friends waiting for information at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a day of national mourning for Sunday.
The Airbus A321 has a solid safety record. It is a 185-seat medium-haul jet in service since 1994, with over 1,100 in operation worldwide and a good safety record. It is a highly automated aircraft relying on computers to help pilots stay within safe flying limits.
Saturday's crash is the second fatal accident involving this variant of the A320 jetliner family, according to data from the Flight Safety Foundation. Airbus said it had no independent information on the crash and declined to comment on the aircraft involved.
If any form of terrorist activity is confirmed, this will surely escalate the war in the region which yesterday bypassed mere proxy status, and will now see both Russian and US soldiers fighting on the opposite sides of the battlefield, this will merely push the world that much closer to a unrestrained conflict.
For now the hope is that this was purely a technical issue: the Russian RIA news agency, citing sources at Sharm el-Sheikh, said: "The pilot contacted the dispatcher and reported technical problems, asking for a change of the route and a landing at Cairo airport, after which communication was broken."
According to the airline, the cause of the tragic accident was not human error.
Kogalymavia airline believes human error wasn't cause of Sinai plane crash, representative tells Russian news agency https://t.co/3d313XYHEO
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 31, 2015
According to RT, Metrojet had a fatal incident in 2011, when one of its planes caught fire on a runway in Surgut Airport in Russia’s Urals. Three people died and 40 were injured as the plane burned out in just 10 minutes.
The last large-scale Russian airline incident happened in November 2013, when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed at Kazan International Airport while attempting to land. Fifty people died in the incident.
The UK's David Cameron has expressed his condolences.
My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims of the Russian plane crash in Egypt and the Bucharest nightclub fire
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) October 31, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his deepest condolences to the families of victims of the crashed airliner. Putin also ordered government ministries to offer immediate assistance to relatives of those killed and an investigation into the causes of the crash.
The president declared a national day of mourning to take place on Sunday, November 1.
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The US is about to find out that two can play the downed airliner game.
Until proven otherwise one must assume the plane was downed by imperial interests (US neocons/luciferians, Israel, ISIS, etc.). The date (satanic holiday), and context (US/Russian standoff in Syria) tend to suggest it. I would not be surprised to learn some key Russian individuals were on board.
Perhaps ISIS was practising with one of their new ManPads? Bet the Russians investigate and release info within the next 2 weeks, unlike MH17 where the Dutch and English after 16 months, STILL have not released black box recordings, or Air Traffic Control tapes.
Russia blame Saudi Arabia in 3.. 2... 1...
Russia is not the USSA, that condemns without evidence to support false flags. Remember how within 12 hours, the USSA pressitutes were squealing like stuck pigs, that Putin did IT. 16 months later, and no concrete proof, just couch potatoe propaganda from bellingcrap.
The Russian media have some independence, unlike the 6 US corporations that control more than 95% of all TV, Radio and Print in Amerika.
oh shit...
Exactly, especially on Hallowe'en, a high holy day for invoking satanic forces. Sacrifice, anyone?
Tragic. Notice how even Hillary puts the word "ELECTABLE" in quotes in her emails?
fall was very steep, no? so the wings were gone?
Avoid flying airlines until after World War 3 is over.
You all are fucking ridiculous. Sometimes accidents happen. Who stands to benefit from this plane going down?
You have a very limited one dimensional line of thinking. Were there CIA on board? What about an agent from the re-formed KGB? How about Israel? Egypt itself? What about those that just want to kill those that don't have the same religion, those we hear about all the time cutting off heads?
And of course, the good ole USSA's potential involvement for...increased production and profits, or the many other reasons. Then of course Russians will be very pissed giving MORE support to their war.
Good Lord, pull your head out of your hindside. Agents, Double Agents, and Double Double agents have been around for a LONG time now, of course if you only watch the 6 news outlets of the USSA, you don't even know what the CIA does...or that the FBI is international...
WOW, sorry to unload, but seriously, you need to wake up to reality and not the Disney fairytale world we were "told" we would have as adults if we went to colludge, bought the house and german saloon car, chemically treated the lawn for the green effects, and so on.
"One of two flight recorders was quickly found"
The Russians will have the evidence and the truth very quickly.
The perpetrator could have crashed the plane over contentious territory, but did not.
Hmmmm.
Who has them now, the IDF branch of the "Egyptian" military?
Good luck Putin, you're going to need it for this one.
America, and by that we mean neocons, bankers, spooks, is SO fucking evil.
They would find following Christ so much more satisfying than Satan. But how do you reach them?
Chuck Colson could tell us...
Did senior specialist BellingCUNT already give his analyses?
He's probably polishing some sort of turd, as we speak.
WHO EXACTLY WAS ON BOARD THAT RUSSIAN AIRLINER & WHAT WAS THER MISSION?
Axis.http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/10/russian-airliner-takedown-over-si...
"The intensifying Russian-Egyptian collaboration looms VERY large over the Mideast Geopolictical Chessboard for the Zio-Anglo-American"
do the PM's and cabinet members always take a private jet to the scene of a crash? I think you are right in this one.. control of information will be telling here
Time will tell... i am concerned about the Lusitania effect mentioned below. It may be a legitimate accident, but we have a 95+ chance it was something else. Add in the Russian "Kinetic Action" and that goes well into 99+ percent in my opinion.
Also, what if it just broke and fell from the sky? It does happen.
yeah those wafer wood dollar store planes always fall apart
Accidents do happen, but once you are at cruise altitude, it is VERY rare. Catastrophic, but VERY rare.
That's why this stinks, it's not some takeoff malfunction.
But neither the Americans, nor any of their puppet states, will be conducting the investigation. And since the thousands of MANPADS floating around MENA can't reach 30,000ft, the possibilities for deliberate action while maintaining plausible deniability are relatively slim.
Not out of range for an Israeli Talmud A-A missile....
Or Allah's backhand
Wait for the film, it always follows when hands are dirty
Israel is pissed off Russian intervention in Syria has just put the kibosh on their Greater Israel project. It's not about who benefits, but rather about revenge. Bitter, sick revenge.
We'll all be on foot then
Avoid flightpaths in the vicinity of ISRAEL and you'll be fine.
20.000 miles radius no fly zone?
the Mossad is very mobile, they kill where ever they feel.
And Goyim are so worthless, does anyone really care?
Avoid flying as long as they must molest you to get onboard.
Hear! Hear!
It's been said that history doesn't necessarily repeat, but it rhymes.
What rhymes with "Downing a Russian airliner"? Perhaps "Sinking of the Lusitania"?
Not perfect, but then I didn't consult my thesaurus.
I am Chumbawamba.
What's History? Can you speed up my data plan so i can get higher res pics of my friend's new racing tires, or the shoes the bought while waiting for them to be put on his 10 year old "slammed" honda? I will camp out for a little box of circuits, but i can care less about this Lucytanna thing... from the people of the USSA.
Halloween pre-dates that sand dwelling goat fucker bullshit called christianity.
It is an actual native holiday of some of the areas in Europe and thus caucasians.
Christianity is a the first mythological parasite of Europe. Judaism is the second and now with islam comes the third.
A complete set of shit, spawn from the same unwashed crusted asshole.
Actually Halloween is about this, or this is what became:
http://www.thepornster.com/video/473/halloween-blowjob-from-gf
You must be English. They all speak that way about religion over there. A real diabolical hatred of God. Problem is, if the supernatural doesn't exist, then all of the crimes committed in the name of religion are no more than evolution running its course, for if there is no supernatural, and the natural is all there is, then the supernatural cannot be blamed for these crimes which so upset you. Unless, of course, you are insane, and want to continue blaming something that doesn't exist.
It makes no sense whatsoever to nurture an irrational hatred of religion if you deny the existence of the supernatural. No sense at all. It's like blaming nature for producing lions which kill antelopes. To my mind it's a clear sign of a diseased mind, a mind that rejects something yet continues to blame that very something for all the world's ills.
I wonder what Barry will say after he gets off the 18th green
Hey, anybody else notice that my caddy has a nice ass.
Lets's do an extra hole.
"Ive some good dope. Let's head to the 19th hole!"
"Reggie wash my balls"
I am so sick of seeing innocent men, women and children murdered by the ZWO empire. Soros, his politician puppets and the rest need to start answering for this.
Someone needs to make a catchers mitt out of Soro's face.
answering for this? maybe Mel Brooks can make a movie about them answering for this..
<<Russia is not the USSA, that condemns without evidence to support false flags. Remember how within 12 hours, the USSA pressitutes were squealing like stuck pigs, that Putin did IT. 16 months later, and no concrete proof, just couch potatoe propaganda from bellingcrap.>>
Thoughts and prayers for the bereaved friends and family of the Russian accident victims. I hope we will all take a moment to be grateful for the gift of life, and to give sympathy to the victims of this tragedy. I cannot imagine what the bereaved must be going through today. I hope death was quick for the victims, and they did not experience very much fear or pain before they died.
Russia, the world's sympathy is with you.
Latina Lover, you are correct to withhold judgement on this. I admit that my first thought, after the horrified reaction, was that the ZWO is behind this. But I am now trying to follow Putin's example. I cannot blame most here for thinking that way, b/c the Zionists do have form and plenty of it. After so many false flags, that was my conditioned response too. But you are right, to jump to conclusions without evidence is premature. The only thing we can be sure of at this point is that the Russians who have lost their lives and loved ones deserve our sympathy. Thanks for your sanity on this thread.
Thank You! I am grateful for life every time i wake up and remain mindful of how wonderful but fragile it is. I thank God for the gift of time on earth (seriously, do you think your ancestors grew a thumb intentionally some 100 million years ago? Look at the news and see how stupid mandkind really is- Spend an hour in the deep woods and consider the impossibility of it being chance, including where earth is related to the sun, the balance of oxygen, CO2, and all that, etc.).
I have become so jaded i couldn't see that it might NOT be planned in some way.