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A Russian airliner crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula early Saturday shortly after takeoff from a popular Red Sea resort town, killing all 224 people aboard, according to Egyptian officials and the Russian embassy in Cairo.
The Metrojet flight, carrying 217 passengers and seven crew members, was en route from Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt to St. Petersburg when it dropped off radar screens 23 minutes into the flight.
"Unfortunately, all passengers 9268 Kogalymavia Sharm el-Sheikh-Petersburg were killed," The Russian embassy in Cairo said, in Russian, on Twitter. "We express our condolences to the family and friends."
The Russian state-run news agency RIA reported initially that emergency workers heard some voices at the crash site, but the Associated Press quoted Egyptian officials later as saying there were no survivors. |