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November 1st, 2015 
Awake Goy 
ISIS has
released a video purporting to show the final moments of the Russian jet
that crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 people on board. The
terror group has claimed it downed the aircraft, but has not said how
it might have done so.
~ Darren Boyle – Sophie Jane Evans – Will Stewart in Moscow
The horrific footage – which was posted online
and cannot be verified by MailOnline – shows a large structure
resembling a plane falling through the air, before being consumed by a
mass of smoke.
Cairo
and Moscow have denied any possible terrorism link in the incident,
which was one of the deadliest Airbus crashes in the past decade.
However,
it has emerged that the aircraft broke up mid-air scattering debris and
bodies over a wide area. This morning, Egyptian authorities recovered
the body of a three-year-old girl some five miles from the crash scene.
So
far, only 163 bodies of the 224 people on board have been recovered. As
a result, authorities are expanding the search perimeter to nine miles.
An
Egyptian security official said: ‘We found a three-year-old girl eight
kilometres from the scene.’ He said many of the bodies are missing
limbs.
It
comes as it has emerged that the burning Airbus A321 did not lodge an
SOS call before it plummeted to he ground in the restive Sinai
Peninsula.
Professor
Michael Clarke, Director General of the Royal United Services Institute
said early indications suggest that the jet may have been destroyed by a
bomb on the aircraft.
He
told BBC Radio Five Live: ‘This aircraft was 200km north of its
take-off zone, that means it was flying at around 31,000 feet.
Terrorists, as far as we know, don’t have equipment to take down an
aircraft at that height.
‘They
have shoulder-launched missiles, known as man-portable missiles. They
can get aircraft when they are taking off or landing, when they are
going low and slow. But anything above 8,000 or 9,000 feet is out of the
range of the weapons that they’ve got.’
He
said the area where the jet crashed is a known location for groups
affiliated to Al Qaeda and ISIS, but it was highly unlikely that a
ground-based weapon was responsible for the in-flight break up.
‘Early
reports said it split into two and that suggests a catastrophic
failure, not a mechanical failure, but perhaps an explosion on board, so
I would be much more inclined to think, if we have to guess at this
stage, it is much more likely to have been a bomb on board than a
missile fired from the ground.
‘And
there’s no sign of a distress call, so the idea that the aircraft was
undergoing an mechanical problem, or an engine problem, or a fire, or
something like that, you would expect that there would be some sort of
distress call beforehand.
‘So
the fact that there was a catastrophic failure at 31,000 feet, with the
aircraft falling in two pieces, suggests to me an explosion on board.
So was this caused by some form of terrible accident, which is unlikely,
or a bomb, which is much more likely, my mind is moving in that
direction rather than anything that happened on the ground.’
Egypt’s
civil aviation minister Hossam Kamal said communications between the
pilot and air traffic controllers were ‘normal’ ahead of the disaster.
‘There
was nothing abnormal… and the pilot didn’t ask to change the plane’s
route,’ he said, adding that the controllers recorded no distress calls.
His
comments contradicted earlier claims that the pilot had reported
technical difficulties and made clear his intention to land at the
nearest airport.
Family
and friends were yesterday pictured grieving for their loved ones – as
harrowing images of the plane’s mangled wreckage were released.
The
photos were distributed by the office of Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif
Ismail, who visited the crash site following the devastating crash.
They
show the destroyed interior of the Irish-owned aircraft, which split
apart upon impact, killing 192 adults, 25 children and seven crew
members.
Yesterday
afternoon, officials said they had recovered the aircraft’s black box,
which is now being examined to determine the cause of the crash.
Last
night, the prime minister’s office said: ‘The black box was recovered
from the tail of the plane and has been sent to be analysed by experts.’
It
added that more than 45 ambulances have been dispatched to the crash
site, with rescuers having recovered 129 victims’ bodies so far.
The
jet, which was leased by a Russian airline and carrying package holiday
passengers back to St Peterburg in northern Russia, plummeted to the
ground less than 25 minutes after it took off from the Red Sea resort of
Sharm el-Sheik. It crashed in the Hassana area, south of Arish,
officials said.
Its
passengers included a 10-month-old baby girl flying home with her
parents, as well as two siblings aged two and three. Numerous other
children aged under 11 also perished in the disaster, according to a
manifest of passengers published by the Association of Tour Operators of
Russia.
The victims’ bodies were spread over a three-mile radius, according to reports.
Security
forces discovered the plane wreckage in a remote mountainous area in a
region containing many ISIS-affiliated terrorists.
Ismail
told reporters that experts will ‘start examining the information in
the plane’s black box, and based on this we will study the causes of the
crash’.
He also expressed scepticism about ISIS’s claim that it carried out the attack in response to Russian strikes in Syria.
The ISIS statement read: ‘The soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane in Sinai.’
However,
Islami claimed: ‘Experts have affirmed that technically planes at this
altitude cannot be shot down, and the black box will be the one that
will reveal the reasons for the crash,’ according to state news agency
MENA.
Russian
transport minister Maksim Sokolov also dismissed the ISIS claims. He
said: ‘This information cannot be considered accurate. We are in close
contact with our Egyptian colleagues and aviation authorities in the
country. At present, they have no information that would confirm such
insinuations.’
Neither official mentioned the terror group’s video purporting to show the falling plane.
While
the use of a surface-to-air missile has been dismissed as a potential
cause of the crash by officials, an on-board bomb could be a
possibility.
The
129 bodies that have been removed from the crash scene so far are being
taken to Cairo, where postmortems will be performed to try and
determine when the passengers died. The passengers included 213 Russians
and four Ukrainians.
Yesterday,
German airline Lufthansa said they will no longer fly over the Sinai
peninsula ‘as long as the cause for [the] crash has not been clarified’.
A spokeswoman for the airline said that ‘security is our highest
priority’ claiming that they would use detours to service airports in
the region.
Air France has also confirmed that it will not be flying through the Sinai until the reasons behind the crash become clear.
A
spokesperson told AFP the measure was taken ‘as a precaution’ while
‘clarification’ was sought over the cause of the incident.
And today, it was reported that British Airways has ordered its pilots to avoid low flying over Egypt in the wake of the crash.
Hundreds
of flights, carrying British passengers to tourist hot spots such as
Sharm el-Sheikh, will continue to fly over the region.
But pilots have been secretly told to be more cautious about their altitude amid concerns of a terror attack,The Sun reports.
The maximum height that a surface-to-air missile could strike is generally thought to be around 25,000 feet.
Most
of the bodies recovered from the crash site have been burned. At the
time, the aircraft would have been carrying a very heavy fuel load.
Ayman
al-Mugadem of the Aviation Incidents Committee said the pilot warned
air traffic controllers that aircraft had developed ‘a technical
problem’ and he needed to land as soon as possible.
However, he then lost contact with controllers – and the plane vanished from radar screens, he said.
Al-Mugadem’s comments were later contradicted by Kamal, who insisted communications were ‘normal’ before the crash.
According to radar data, the aircraft was descending at more than 6,000 feet per minute shortly before the impact.
A
statement from an ISIS-linked group being broadcast on jihadist
propaganda channels said: ‘A Russian plane was dropped with the
destruction of more than 220 Russian Crusaders, thankfully.’
However,
the aircraft vanished from radar screens at 30,000 feet, more than
double the effective range of a shoulder-carried ground-to-air weapon
system.
The
group known as A3’Maq News used the headline: ‘fighters of the Islamic
State down a Russian passenger plane in the sky over the Egyptian
Sinai.’
It
quoted a source as saying: ‘This operation came in response to raids by
Russian planes that have caused the deaths of hundreds of Muslims on
Syrian territory, most of them women and children.’
The head of
Egypt’s civil aviation authority, Mahmud al-Zinati. said there were
‘many dead’ including 17 children. Officials said 214 of the passengers
were Russians with three Ukrainians on board.
Adel
Mahgoub, chairman of the state company that runs Egypt’s civilian
airports, said the plane had successfully undergone technical checks at
Sharm el-Sheikh’s airport before taking off.
He said experts were going there to view security camera footage of the Metrojet plane at the airport.
The
aircraft was leased by Kogalymavia. Airline spokeswoman Oxana Golovina
said the airline’s pilot Valery Nemov had more than 12,000 hours of
flying experience with 3,860 on the Airbus A321.
She
said: ‘Our aircraft was in full working order, our crew was
experienced, our pilot had a great deal of flying experience, so we
don’t know (what caused the crash).’ They stressed that human error was
not at fault for the crash.
The
aircraft was manufactured in 1997 and has been operated by Metrojet
since 2012. Since leaving the Airbus factory it has flown some 56,000
flight hours completing almost 21,000 journeys.
Russia’s
state transport regulator Rostransnadzor found violations when it last
conducted a routine flight safety inspection of Kogalymavia
But after the inspection, which took place in March 2014, the airline addressed the safety concerns.
However, the RIA Novosti news agency said that the pilot’s had expressed concerns about one of the aircraft’s engines.
A
source told the agency: ‘This board (crew) had several times requested
help from technical services due to an engine not starting up several
times this week.
‘Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered his own team of experts to the crash site to determine the cause of the disaster.
He has also declared a day of national mourning.
He has already sent five aircraft to Egypt to assist with the investigation.
The first of his team arrived in Cairo last night before heading to the crash scene today.
The
Israeli Defence Forces confirmed they had intelligence assets in the
region at the time of the crash. According to a statement: ‘Since this
morning the IDF assisted with aerial surveillance in the efforts to
locate the Russian airplane that lost contact over the Sinai Peninsula.
‘The IDF has offered continued assistance to both Russia and Egypt if required.’
The wreckage was found roughly 60 miles south of the North Sinai town of El-Arish, Egyptian officials said.
‘Military
planes have discovered the wreckage of the plane… in a mountainous
area, and 45 ambulances have been directed to the site to evacuate dead
and wounded,’ a cabinet statement said.
One
official at the scene said: ‘I now see a tragic scene. A lot of dead on
the ground and many 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
Egyptian Aviation Ministry said there were 63 men and 138 women on
board. The victims range in age from ten-months old to 77.
Yulia Zaitseva said her friends, a newlywed couple named Elena Rodina and Alexqander Krotov, were on the flight. Both were 33.
Zaitseva
said her friend ‘really wanted to go to Egypt, though I told her “why
the hell do you want to go to Egypt?” She added: ‘We were friends for 20
years. She was a very good friend who was ready to give everything to
other people. To lose such a friend is like having your hand cut off.’
She said Rodina’s parents feel ‘like their lives are over.’
The official said the plane was flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet when communication was lost.
A
senior official in Egypt air traffic control said that the pilot told
him in their last communication that he was having trouble with the
plane’s radio system.
Russian
aviation official Sergei Lzvolsky told Interfax news agency that the
Kogalymavia Russian airline had departed Sharm el-Sheikh at 5:51 am
local time.
He said the Airbus 321 did not make contact as expected with air traffic controllers in Cyprus.
Reports suggest the pilot was attempting an emergency landing at El-Arish international Airport.
The aircraft took off from Sharm el-Sheikh at 3.51GMT and was due to land in St Petersburg at 09:12GMT.
The
Russian Investigative Committee has launched its own probe and is
looking for possible ‘violations of flight safety procedures’.
Russia’s
Investigative Committee, the country’s top investigative body, has
opened an investigation into the crash of a Russian passenger jet in
Egypt’s Sinai peninsula for possible violations of flight safety
procedures.
Committee spokesman Sergei Markin made the announcement in a statement yesterday.
Egyptian authorities confirmed that ‘casualties’ were being evacuated to local hospitals.
The aircraft is believed to have broken into two sections after the jet crashed.
Early reports said that the bodies of five children have been recovered, still strapped to their seats.
According to Flight Radar 24, the jet was plunging at 5,760 feet per minute when it lost contact with air traffic controllers.
Reports suggest the pilot had warned air traffic controllers of a technical issue on board the aircraft.
Weather conditions were said to be poor at the time of the crash.
Russian
media claimed that pilots on the doomed jet had complained earlier this
week about engine problems and it is reported they may have sought to
divert the aircraft before it plunged to the earth.
The
aircraft suffered a ‘tail strike’ in November 2001 as it attempted to
land at Cairo International Airport from Beirut according to an aviation safety website.
The Egyptian prime minister Sharif Ismail said: ‘Russian civilian plane… crashed in the central Sinai.’
His office confirmed that a cabinet level crisis committee has been established to deal with the crisis.
It
is understood that the aircraft had just taken off on a four-hour
flight to St Petersburg when it went missing shortly after take off.
The Airbus A321-231 is believed to have been manufactured in 1997 and is owned by a Dublin-based company.
The aircraft
went down in an area where pilots are warned against flying at less
than 24,000 feet because of the danger of ‘dedicated anti-aircraft
weapons’.
The probe into the crash is being headed by Ayman Al-Mokadem according to Ahram.org.
He said the pilot had requested a diversion before the incident for a ‘technical failure’.
He claimed the pilot had asked for the nearest airport and may have been heading to Al-Arish in northern Sinai.
Reports
from local journalists claim that local tribesmen near the remote crash
site claimed that the aircraft was ‘burning’ as it fell from the sky.
US Secretary of State John Kerry offered his condolences during a visit the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.
He
said: ‘We don’t know any details about it, but obviously the initial
reports represent tremendous tragedy, loss, and we extend our
condolences to the families and all those concerned.’
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