And what could prevent that from happening again?
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One official said it was “99.9% certain”.
Moscow and London ramped up efforts Sunday to bring home thousands of tourists stranded in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh resort following the crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula.
Qatar Airways, the second largest carrier in the Middle East, has stopped flying along the Sinai border on routes to Cyprus and Lebanon since the crash.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday warned that airport security around the world would have to be overhauled if it was confirmed that the crash in Sinai was caused by a bomb. “That could take a few time”.
Thomson said: “All customers booked to travel to Sharm el-Sheikh in this period will be provided with a full refund or can amend to any holiday now on sale”. “That’s why this decision was made” to halt flights “on the basis of recommendations and materials prepared by the anti-terrorism committee”, he said. But a few intelligence is sensitive, and clearly we don’t share the most sensitive intelligence.
Russia will send 44 planes to repatriate its nationals, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said.
“If we believe an airport is unsafe we will say so”.
New evidence has bolstered the theory that a Russian passenger jet was brought down by a bomb, which resulted in the killing of all 224 people on board in Egypt, USA media said on Monday.
“We don’t know what happened exactly”, he said.
The Egyptians aren’t the only ones involved. Experts from Russian Federation, France, Germany and Ireland – countries that are connected in various ways to the Airbus A321-200 that crashed – are also investigating.
Sources in France close to the investigation told AFP that black box data pointed to a bomb exploding and of a sudden, violent demise of the Airbus.
An affiliate of the Daesh terrorist Takfiris in Egypt has claimed to have been behind the crash in retaliation for Moscow’s military campaign against Daesh in Syria.
It makes a lot of sense, both as to why the USA was dismissing the ISIS claim initially, and why they suddenly got new intelligence seemingly out of nowhere. French sources familiar with the investigation described the sound on the cabin recorder as a violent and sudden explosion, echoing earlier speculation by British intelligence sources.
US President Barack Obama has said Washington is “seriously” considering the possibility of a bomb on board.
Moshe Yaalon told reporters Monday that he “would be surprised” if a planted explosive device did not cause the crash.
He also said that bad weather has hampered the investigation.
“Tourists will be returning from Egypt to Russian Federation when they planned to”, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
easyJet has advised stranded passengers to expect being delayed out there up to “three-to four days”.
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British security officials visited Sharm el-Sheikh airport, as well as the busier Hurghada global Airport, on seven separate occasions during the year preceding the disaster, according to Gad Karim, the former head of Egypt’s airport authority.
