How many bodies found after the crash and 321. Pain, fear and tears

On October 31, 2015, the A321 plane of the Russian company Kogalymavia crashed on the Sinai Peninsula, which carried out a charter flight of 7k-9268 along the route Sharm El Sheikh - St. Petersburg. Liner disappeared with radar after 23 minutes after takeoff.
The wreckage of the aircraft was lifted using a special tool. Photo: Nikolay Nikitenko
When the search teams of the Egyptian government left to the fall around the fall, IL-76 took off in Ramenskoye near the airport with MES rescuers.
They had to work at the heat in the stone desert, where any infrastructure was missing. Each rescuer passed over these days more than 45 kilometers. But physical overload is nothing compared to psychological. They had to collect fragments of passengers and children's things in the desert.
About how the search operation was held in the Sinai Peninsula, as interacted with the Egyptian colleagues, told the rescuer of the international class of the aircraft rescue unit of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia ("Centripas") Nikolay Nikitenko.
- What did the signal arrived?
- The operational duty "Centzropas" has an alarm button. Signal sounds, and then announcement on loud-speaking communication. If there is a long departure to leave the people once again not to pull, the operational duty can cause the group commander, to report that "the readiness of the number one" is received, are going.
Rides usually duty shift. Depending on the emergency, specialists of a particular profile are achieved. If the emergency room occurred on the water, they take more divers, if in the mountains - those rescuers who have climbing preparation.
If a significant group is required, they cause guys from the reserve. On a business trip to the Sinai Peninsula, for example, the reserve from Moscow was raised in addition to the duty shift. Two units "Centrospas" are based in the capital: in the middle Golotogo Lane and Novoyasenevsky Prospect.
43 people left the Centrospas from Centrospas, from the Center for Rescue Operations of Special Risk "Leader" - 40.


- What kind of special equipment took with me?
- a heavy rescue car Rosenbauer, which is equipped with various equipment - a hydraulic station and tools: scissors, impressions, expanders, hydraulic cylinders, jacks, and a motor, chainsaw. There are also two inflatable modules for living. In the second car, KamAZ, immersed nutrition, fuel, water, heavy equipment and another inflatable module. Also with us on the Sinai Peninsula on IL-72 flew the traveling car "UAZ". The leader's detachment had two "KAMAZ" with the necessary equipment and equipment. In Egypt, there were 5 units of technology from the Russian operational group. The director of the department of fire and rescue forces and special formations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Alexander Agafonov was appointed head of the operation from the Russian side.


- How much did you have to get to the fall of the A321?
- Kaira flew 4.5 hours. Then in the WP-Hall of the airport, waited until the detachment "Leader" arrives. When everyone gathered, formed a large column and moved to the Sinai Peninsula. The distance of 365 kilometers was overcome in 8 hours. By the time it was already known that there were no survivors in the catastrophe.


Things found at the crash site A321.
- How did they guard you, the peninsula is in the zone of the tribes, swearing ISIL?
- Protection was unprecedented. At the airport, when we unloaded our cars from the plane, we were given an armored jeep accompaniment. Then in the column with us, both in front, inside and behind, moved about seven-eight cars with Egyptian military. The blocks stood on the road every 10-15 kilometers. On the way, we saw trenches, strengthening, funnels, bludges. We were led, gave a "green corridor", including when they drove in the tunnel under the Suez Canal. Because of our column there was a fairly large stopper.
- How did the camp equipped in such a turbulent region?
- The camp smasted near the biggest fragments of the aircraft. Before the destroyed nose, the wings and parts of the fuselage were meters 200. We have exhaust technology for years. Unloaded modules, connected them alternately to air blowers. Washed the electrician. After an hour and a half, we already stood the camp. A total of 5 modules: 4 residential and one equipped at the headquarters. Also put a tent under the dining room.


The Egyptian military scored the pegs, stole the camp of the barbed wire. We realized that we can stumble upon it in the dark, hung on a wire marker red and white ribbon. For the purpose of the safety of the Egyptians, the grader was adjusted and the camp chant. All over the perimeter were made of brutter type dumps. At night inside the camp, the patrol went, and at the edges they stood jeeps. Then we learned that there was also long-stop.


- How were the searches were organized?
- On the same day, as the camp set, our group with the consent of the Egyptians still jumped up to assess the approximate scope of work. The next day, at six in the morning, as soon as the dawn, got up. Seven have already come forward, capturing water and dry laces. Protection did not have time to intercept, lost. The Egyptians thought that the Russians would rest on the roads, and the Russian times, and unexpectedly left early. Then they were catching us on the jeep.
They drove together with the "leaders", according to the information of the Egyptian side, to a long-distance point, unloaded, lined up with a chain, covering about 14 square kilometers, and went.
- It is terrible to imagine what you had to detect.
- We found the personal belongings, documents, but the most pains were to collect children's sandals, toys, a mirror ... I still remember, I found prayers, which was opened on the prayer to the guardian angel: "... You will be enlightened and saved from any evil ..."


The considered prayer was opened on the prayer angel-keeper.
- What was the terrain there?
- Stony desert stretched around. It was a feeling that earlier there was a huge showing glass field with a crust, which was then cracking. Sand covered small broken stones. There were low sand mountains, their height of GPS was a maximum of 70 meters.
- How many hours a day had to work?
- On the first day we passed about 15 kilometers, worked up to 16 hours, until they came to the camp. The next day, the Egyptians prepared two jeep in advance to follow each of our trucks. Worked in the mountainous area. Found a lot of passports, student tickets, phones, tablets of the dead passengers. Twisted ten more kilometers. When they climbed into the mountains, the Egyptian military arranged an observation point at the highest point and followed us from there.


Two days stood the heat, reaching +35, but then the sun began to periodically leave the clouds, it was quite comfortable - + 22-24, at night the temperature fell to + 6-8 degrees.
"Posted poems. As if someone was over with her hand ... "
- What condition were things? The news showed a burnt suitcase.
- We found this suitcase rather far from the main part of the wreckage. Even the tail lay closer. It was clear that the suitcase flew from the sky already burnt. Among themselves we said that there was some kind of thermal impact. It was clear to scatter fragments. According to the found burnt things from the rear cargo compartment, it was similar to that the epicenter was there.
We drove on all major objects, fixed their coordinates and photographed. Human flesh remained on the passenger chairs found. We cut off the seats, put in bags. Upon returning to the camp passed the Egyptian side.
On the third day we were given "good" to work on the main part of the fuselage, which lay close to the base camp. The military personnel of the Egyptian army collected the bodies of the dead passengers who lay from above. Of course, they were well done, they were able to get around a fairly large territory for a day, the passengers fell out of the aircraft collapsed in the air.
Where the bodies of Russians were lying, it was possible to judge the gloves that left the Egyptians when the dead passengers were packaged. All fields near the large fragments of the aircraft were littered with these gloves.
The plane, decaying in the air on the part, turned over and fell up the chassis. We did not have right to change the position of parts of the aircraft. The study of them, as well as other technical factors, was engaged in the Egyptian side. We just raised using a special debris tool. Under many of them, fragments of passenger bodies were found. Rescuers collected 64 bags with small fragments and five - with large parts of the tel. Under wing wreck, we found the baby's body ...


"Then you wrote poems dedicated to the very small passenger Airbus 321 - Darina Thunder?
- I do not know whether we found the girl. It was impossible to even determine the sex of the child, so the body was damaged. I wondered a lot. I have no first aviation catastrophe, I worked for twenty years by the rescue. I saw that for young guys from the detachment "Leader" and our Muscovites, this is, of course, a significant psychological burden. But I was covered for the fourth day. We went to rest, turned on the player, I did not listen to music, and poems ... And the beginning of the beginning to put pressure, jumped out, I took the handle, I found the paper, wrote poems:
"I don't know you, baby,
How so? Why? What for?
Sleep forced a black flash
And covered in eternity of the Tlen ... "
As if someone had over her hand ...
- The refrigerator came to the desert?
- No, the "ambulance" arrived at the remains once a day or the helicopter arrived.
- The found things of passengers somehow fellowly?
- We folded bags with found things in one big bag, upon arrival at the base in the presence of our representatives, the Egyptian side was transferred under the inventory. The Egyptians sorted, packaged, put the tags, and when the helicopter arrived, drove and exported to Cairo.


- The relatives of the dead passengers accused the Egyptians in the looting. On their loved ones, there were no gold jewelry that they never shot.
- When we arrived, there were no bodies dead. One of our rescuer found a shortage of a small size, or the children, whether the female in which were dollars, we passed them under painting. The guys found some other rubles. There were no more valuable findings. What happened before we hit this area - on the conscience of Egyptians. It is enough to leave Cairo to understand how poor is the country. I won't be surprised if it turns out that gold jewelry were stolen.
- There were some settlements nearby?
- Near there was no. Although the guys then found twenty minutes away in the middle of the desert oasis. Around the lunar landscape, and there are four houses, emerald palm trees, lake. Rescuers were forbidden to approach this settlement for security purposes.
At the second stage, the search zone expanded to 20-30 square meters. km, and then up to 40 square meters. km, before the scatter of parts of the aircraft and personal belongings of passengers was great.
Drone, as well as space monitoring and prediction of places of possible location of the plane and personal belongings of passengers were used.
"With the dead passengers A321 they said good in their own way."
- What are the relationship with the Egyptian military who guarded you?
- We had complete mutual understanding and support. The guys who worked with us were the same operatives as we. One of the security officers studied at one time in St. Petersburg, welcomed us, calling countrymen.
None of the Egyptians wanted to believe that the plane was blown up. For them, this is a strong blow. In the first place they have in revenues to the budget, as we understood, the Suez Canal, on the second - tourist business.
- Is it true that the combat helicopters covered from the air?
- The combat helicopters covered the "turntable", which brought into place the fall of the population of poppy and the investigative committee. Sitted Mi-8 or a heavy military-transport chinook helicopter, and covering helicopters were barraged around. We also told the guys from the embassy that there was an instruction to shoot any unidentified, not a military jeep.


- In the rocky desert did not have a lack of water?
- We had a stock of water and shower. Only we did not put the pumping station at this time. Saved water. There was a barrel on the shower cabin, from which water was saved. Leaders had their own shower and hiking bath. The only thing was not enough firewood. The guys came from somewhere. But adapted, washed. In the desert they took with them liquid disinfection sprays.
We helped the Egyptians very well with the products. They brought us lunch boxes in which there were two bottles of water - sweet and mineral, a pair of pellek, salad, sauce, rice, potato fries and a couple of pieces of meat. It was possible to join. Plus, we had dry soldering with us. Of all this, our cook prepared hiking dishes.
- No cellular communication?
- used satellite communications. The nearest cellular tower was in Israel, 80 kilometers from us. Turn on the phone, a message appeared: "Not registered on the network." We were told that there were scouts there.


- Snakes did not dismil?
- Snakes have not seen. When the wind stopped, flies appeared. Constantly saw traces of gecko lizards. But without guests in the camp could not. Once a tube jumped into the module. One of the rescuers put it in the box, I wrote there as the feed of cockroaches and cucumbers and removed this trophy home. But then a whole party "Green" gathered, he was said: "This animal lived here, there must be left." When the Tushkanchik was released, he immediately ran back to the module. I had to drive it by force.
- How much did the search operation last?
- On October 31, we flew from the airfield of the near Moscow Ramensky, on November 11 returned home. The operative group of the center "Leader" returned to Moscow on November 16. With the dead passengers A321 they said goodbye in their own way. On the ninth day after the aircraft crash lined up at the largest fragment of the burnt liner, they declared a minute of silence and laid flowers.
At the improvised memorial, where children's toys were folded, representatives of the Egyptian side also stood with us.


224 people died, of which 25 children. People who committed this crime do not understand that there are the laws of the Universe and no one will ever be able to cancel the law of karma. Everything will come back, everything will be rewarded.

Place of death in the ninth row

Relatives of those killed in a plane crash are now held together. They still have to complete the difficult path: to obtain the results of DNA expertise, then - certificates of the death of loved ones, to issue insurance payments, to bury relatives. Now officially identified 58 people. 38 names are voiced - these are those who considered it necessary to give publicity.

Infographics: Alexander Voitenko

Alexander Voitenko lost his sister and niece in the tragedy. Today, this person carefully monitors all the details on a plane crash, it is divided from those who cannot monitor the news about the tragedy that the life of their loved ones.

After, Voitenko compiled a plan of the aircraft. Points noted those passengers who managed to identify visually. Almost all of them were sitting in the tail of the liner.

Before us, the plan of the crashing aircraft A321. Blue dots marked passengers that are identified.

It was possible to identify 53 out of 58 officially identified. Points in the diagram are indicated by those killed, whose bodies are preserved and who managed to identify visually.

According to the scheme, it can be seen: at the end of the aircraft - 29 people. 11 - centered. 6 - at the beginning. The crew is 5 people. Pilot cabin - 2 people.

Visually managed to identify mostly the body of those passengers who were sitting in the tail. In the center - almost all burned alive. The dead, who were sitting at the beginning of the liner - will be very difficult to identify. Members of the crew of visual identification practically did not give in. Pilots and flight attendants were identified in shape, "says Alexander Voitenko - the end of the DNA examination is scheduled for November 24-25. - Personal things both promise to give a little later - about 2 weeks. Employees The Investigation Committee conducted an examination of baggage, took samples from "suspicious" suitcases by means of a mixture of water and methanol for the detection of hexogen. Examination confirmed the presence of explosives. From here was concluded about the terrorist attack. The things of the dead passengers on which these substances were found were recognized as material evidence. Relatives will not just just get these things now.

Those who sat in the center almost all burned alive. Pilots and flight attendants were identified only in shape, their bodies were also not in the best condition. From all this we can draw conclusions: the number of "whole" bodies is minimal. More than half of the bodies are in a fragmentary state. Total fragments about 800.

Only after the completion of the DNA expertise will become clear - if they found everyone. We very much hope that everyone will find. It is very important to people.

Relatives of the victims have already learned the place where their relatives were sitting.

The smallest, Darina Gromova, with their parents, occupied 9 row, places D, E, F. On the scheme of their squares empty, they say closest dead. - Grandmother Darina did not recognize the body of her granddaughter and agreed to the DNA examination. So officially the child is not identified.

Did not find all the necks - there were also many children there. Among the identified no and the one-year-old Alice is Mozgina. Nothing is known about the little boy of Miron, who flew with his parents and grandmother ...

Relatives of the dead, who communicated with the investigators, were asked by various issues. One of them - were passengers were fastened at the time of the liner crash?

Investigators gave us to understand that not all passengers were fastened. Someone was tearned along with the chair, they also explained to us, "the interlocutors add.

A pedestrian crowd of tourists, a bright underwater world, mounted divers from all over the world - all this attracts travelers. The Russians rushed there, as on the second cottage: at least a week to rest from work and fry in the sun. We flew whole families until the airline crash in Egypt October 31, 2015 did not forced to shudder the whole country.

Tragic incident

Brish's tourist group was returned to the charter flight from Sharm El Sheikh to St. Petersburg. Despite the early morning (departure in 5.50 local time), passengers were in a great mood. They laid out the pictures of the retired holiday in social networks. It was Saturday, and on Monday, many had to plunge into someone waiting for work, someone - study.

Airbus A321-231 EI-ETJ airliner arrived from Samara, took on board 217 passengers. They and seven crew members for 12 o'clock in the afternoon were to be in the northern capital, where many were expected at the airport relatives and relatives. Differenceing in 23 minutes a given height of 9400 meters, at a speed of 520 km / h aircraft suddenly gone from radar. At 6.15 (7.15 of Moscow) the plane collapsed in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Sinai Peninsula near El Arish airport - the hottest point of Egypt, where the Government troops opposed the Islamists al-Qaida.

Versions of tragedy

Meeting Flight 9268 at the Pulkovo airport with anxiously followed the scoreboard, on which the information was highlighted: "Arrival is delayed." And in the evening, the whole country knew that the wreckage of the missing aircraft was discovered by the Egyptian authorities. 13 kilometers scattered on the length, with a torn part, they were shown on television, which caused many versions of specialists about the possible causes of the catastrophe. Three were most reliable:

• Technical problems associated either with engine failure or with "fatigue" of metal. In the tail part, traces of the repair of the skin after the aircraft in 2001, when landing at Cairo airport, hurt the asphalt tail. The resulting microcrack could with a set of height cause the destruction of the aircraft.
• A plane crash in Egypt is a crew error.
• Terrorist act.

At the site of the tragedy, the Mc Commission, headed by the representative of Egypt Aiman \u200b\u200bAl-Mukkadam, began to work. It includes representatives of Russia, France, Germany, the USA and Ireland. After studying evidence and decryption, the two first versions were considered untenable.

Aircraft

A321 catastrophe over the Sinai Peninsula has become the largest in the history of Egypt and modern Russia. The airbus belonged to Cogalymavia, which was thoroughly verified. It was found that after the emergency situation of 2001, the aircraft repair was carried out in France at the factory, after which all the necessary tests were carried out. For 18 years of operation, the liner flew less than 50% of its resource (57428 hours) and was in good condition. This is evidenced by weekly technical checks, the latter of which was carried out 26.10.2015. Side recorders did not find a failure in the work of systems. Until the 23rd minute, the flight passed quite ordinary.

Crew

Sorcellaneous crew commander Valery Nemov is a graduate Schaulevsh (Stavropol Military School). He is one of the few who in the difficult 90s reappeared on the "Airbus" from 2008, having 12 thousand hours of the bell, which indicates his colossal experience. The second pilot also came from military aviation, being a veteran of the Chechen campaign. After retirement, Sergey Trukhachyov reincursed to the A321, having passed the preparation in the Czech Republic. Flew on them for more than 2 years. The total tax amounted to 6 thousand hours. Both pilots were in a good invoice in their airline. Nova was even prematurely called from vacation to send to the infamous flight 9268.

Official version

Two weeks after the tragedy, the version of the terrorist attack officially announced the head of the FSB during a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation. In confirmation of their words, he led the following evidence:

1. American satellites recorded a thermal outbreak over Sinai during a catastrophe, which speaks about the explosion happened on board the aircraft.
2. The fragment of the fuselage has a hole with a diameter of about one meter. Her edges will be arched out. This indicates that the source of the explosion was inside.
3. When deciphering the recorder fixing the negotiations, an extraneous noise of which can be heard before interrupting the recording, the character of which can be attributed to the explosive wave.
4. A plane crash in Egypt caused a large public resonance. After a while not only recognized responsibility for committing a terrorist attack, but also on the pages of Dabig magazine posted a photo of the homemade explosive device (STU).
5. Parts of the dead were detected injuries, testifying to the death of the explosion (burns, tissue breaks).
6. In fragments of fragments, baggage and on the body of the victims found traces of explosives - TNT molecules.

The power of the explosion was estimated at 1 kilogram of the presumptuous location of the airfield - the tail of the aircraft. For the explosive wave moved forward, but the felt of the fuselage prevented its further advancement.

A plane crash in Egypt: Who is to blame?

After the emergence of the Russian version it became known that 17 employees were detained at Egypt's airport. The main question was one thing: "How did the light be on the side of the liner?" The FSB began studying the biographies of 34 passengers (11 men and 23 women), on the body of which turned out to be the molecules of TNT. But official Egypt soon stated that there is no evidence for an unequivocal statement about the terrorist attack on board the aircraft. None of the employees were really arrested. Russian authorities announced a remuneration of $ 50 million for any information about terrorists.

Only in February 2016, official recognition of the terrorist attack sounded from President Egypt. It was found that the bomb was made of a plastic used to create combat shells. It is powered by a clock mechanism. A plane crash in Egypt October 31, 2015 showed that the security system at the airport does not meet international standards. I could get on board with the firm supplying products, through the staff with accession to the runway, as well as through manual sting during the luggage check. The latest data is such that was in the cabin in close proximity to the site 31a. All these facts led to a ban on selling tours to rest in Egypt.

Passengers of the flight

EI-ETJ - the last digits of the airbus number. According to them, aviators called Bort Juliet, gentle - "Julka". In the tragic morning, she broke three aviation marriage and destroyed a young steward, who came to replace instead of a colleague from a terrible sleep. And she took the lives of 217 passengers with him, 25 of whom are children. The died in a plane crash in Egypt are whole families, dozens of destroyed love stories, babies who are never destined to become adults. This flight with parents flew ten-month Darina Gromov. Her photo mother posted on the social network before departure. The girl stands at the airport face to the runway, and below signature: "Main passenger". This picture has become a symbol of a tragic flight, from which no one managed to return.

Almost all passengers are Russians, 4 people - citizens of Ukraine, 1 - Belarus. Most are residents of St. Petersburg, although there are representatives of other areas: Pskov, Novgorod, Ulyanovsk. Died in a plane crash in Egypt - people of different professions. As long as relatives were identified by the bodies, no-indulgered people formed a collective portrait of passengers, collecting information about them. A remarkable gallery was created, where there were many good words about each.

Almost a year later

On July 31, Moscow and St. Petersburg held a campaign in memory of those killed over Sinai. 9 months passed: many relatives received compensation, identified and buried their loved ones, but did not subsaf. 5.08.2016 It was a message that forty-five militants led by Abu Dua Al-Anseari, on whose fault there was a plane crash in Egypt, destroyed during a combat operation near El Arish. So I want to believe that this will never happen again!

Published 02.11.15 19:45

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation found on Sinai 111 passports of victims of the collapse of A321. 16 people were able to avoid death in the Egyptian plane crash, meanwhile, the part of the bodies of the victims of the aircraft crash in Egypt. The President expressed condolences to the families of the victims and thanked everyone who supported them.

A plane crash in Egypt, the latest news: another bodies of those killed under the fuselage broken A321

Russian rescuers have found more fragments of the bodies of the A321 aircraft in the Sinai Peninsula in the place where the central part of the fuselage liner is located, reports LifeNews.

"During the inspection of the liner, Russian rescuers using the Rosenbauer rescue car raised a new part of the aircraft fuselage and found new remains of the aircraft passengers," said intkbbch Director of the Department of Fire and Rescue Forces and Special Formations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Agafonov. According to him, this part of the fuselage lay on the ground inverted.

"The wreckages are scattered in an extensive territory, which confirms the information that the plane began to collapse in the air," he added, noting that, despite the difficult conditions, the work of the detachments would continue until the onset of darkness.

Meanwhile, sources in Rosaviation reported LifeNews that, by the location of the bodies of the dead and liner debris, an exemplary crash picture of the liner is already installed. According to preliminary data, the first victims of the collapse A321 were passengers of the tail part of the liner.

After the tail part of the airbus falls off at an altitude of almost 9 thousand meters, a part of the passengers fell out. Search detachments found some siblings a few kilometers from the crash site of the liner.

Identified part of bodies of victims of a plane crash in Egypt

Relatives of the victims in St. Petersburg identified part of the victims of the aircraft aircraft of Kogalymavia plane crash, transmit "Vesti.ru". The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia delivered 140 bodies of the dead to the northern capital from Egypt. On the evening of November 2, it is expected to fly from Cairo another aircraft with the bodies of the dead.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation found on Sinai 111 passports of victims of the collapse of A321

In the meantime, the EMERCOM employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, who currently continue to operate on the airbus A321 side crash site, discovered 111 passports of the victims of the aircraft crash.

"Among the documents found at the crash site, there are passports of citizens of Ukraine. Works continue. The Emergencies Ministry Rescuers work in a hollow, where a large fragment of the aircraft with personal things and an inflatable ladder is found, "Agafonov said.

It is also noted that rescuers have to work in extremely difficult conditions - in Sinai now there is an unbearable heat, plus height differences and a huge territory for research. The search zone today increased from four kilometers to 12. The territory fuses 74 employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

"The height differences in the hollow are 120 meters, the rescuers are descended in the rope. All things found are packaged and delivered to the base camp, which is 12 kilometers, "- says the Director of the Department.

French specialists began to work at the crash site, representatives of the poppy and aviation authorities of Egypt also work.

16 people were able to availdeath in the Egyptian air crash

Kogalymavia airlines confirms that 16 people did not fly from St. Petersburg to Egypt closest after the A321 flight, RIA Novosti reports a representative of the press service of the airline.

"To date, we only have information that on the day of what happened, on the day of the catastrophe on the flight St. Petersburg - Sharm-Eshech (reverse flight, which was supposed to make a broken A321) did not fly 16 people and two people were removed Purely human reasons, "said the representative of the press service.

The President expressed condolences to the families of the victims and thanked everyone who supported them

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded work to investigate all the reasons for the A321 crash until all the details of the tragedy are found, "KP" writes.

"Everything must be done to clarify the causes of the plane crash, so that we reacted accordingly," the president said.

Putin also stated that the issue of helping the families of the victims in a plane crash should be decided as soon as possible. He exceeds the inhabitants of St. Petersburg, who were supported and empathized to relatives of the victims.

"In such tragedies, in such hours, of course, it is very important to feel the shoulder of loved ones, empathizing the whole country about this terrible catastrophe," said Vladimir Putin.

About a plane crash in Egypt

Airbus 321 aircraft, which raised 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, failed on October 31. Shortly after departure from the Egyptian airport, the airport carriage stopped contacting. It was reported that the aircraft was dropped by 1.5 kilometers, after which the radar screens disappeared. Before loss of communication, the pilot requested permission to land at Cairo Airport, report airport staff.

Later it became known to the exact seat of the liner. On board A321 there were 224 people - seven crew members and 217 passengers, among which, according to unconfirmed data, 25 children. This air crash has become the largest in the history of Russian and Soviet aviation.