BREAKING! Russian 220-passenger plane reported to CRASH in Egypt!!

by SooperMexican

Three are reports that a 200-passenger Russian plane has crashed in Egypt, but these are unconfirmed at this time.

More from Al Arabiya News:

A Russian civilian plane carrying 224 people crashed in Sinai on Saturday, the Egyptian Prime Minister said, amid earlier conflicting reports that the plane was safely continuing its journey.

Egyptian air traffic control lost contact with the Airbus A-321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, shortly after it took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to head to Russia, aviation sources told Reuters news agency.

The sources said the passenger plane was mainly carrying Russian tourists.

Security sources in the Sinai Peninsula confirmed reports that an aircraft was missing. But in a conflicting statement, Egypt’s air accident chief had said that the missing passenger plane on its way to Russia had safely left Egyptian airspace and made contact with Turkish air traffic control.

“The … Russian airline had told us that the Russian plane we lost contact with is safe and that it has contacted Turkish air traffic control and is passing through Turkish skies now,” Ayman al-Muqaddam, the head of the central air traffic accident authority in Egypt, said in a statement.

But local Egyptian media reported the plane had crashed in Sinai, a claim later confirmed by the PM.

This would be a huge development given that Russia is imposing its presence in the Middle East. Further, most authorities agree that Russia probably shot down the civilian airplane over Ukraine that killed 295. It really seems like too much of a coincidence that a Russian plane would crash so soon after their entrance into Syria….

So in other words, this is a big friggin’ deal.


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