Russian Plane Crash in Egypt: All passengers dead, ISIS claims responsibility

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• 31 Oct 2015, 11:26 PM

  France's air safety agency to send team to Egypt to investigate plane crash
   

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 11:26 PM

  Egyptian PM says no "irregular" activities believed behind crash

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 11:19 PM

  Lufthansa, Air France

  avoid flying

  over Sinai after crash

   

   

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 10:55 PM

  Egyptian civil aviation minister says Russian plane was safe when it took off

  
  The flight’s planned route was from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg, Russia

  
  

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• 31 Oct 2015, 10:43 PM

  Ismail said that the chances of finding survivors were now near-impossible and that a Russian team would arrive in Egypt on Saturday evening. 

  Read: Russian airliner with 224 aboard crashes in Egypt's Sinai, all killed

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 10:36 PM

  Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail says impossible to determine cause of Russian plane crash until black box examined.

   

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 10:34 PM

  Islamic State, who claims to have brought down the Russian plane tweeted: "You who kill will be killed."

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 10:23 PM

  Bodies were being removed from the scene of the crash and transported to various hospitals with 34 arriving in the Zeinhom morgue in Cairo.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 09:05 PM

  Russian aviation regulator says no grounds yet to blame airliner crash on technical failure, mistake by crew or external action

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 08:45 PM

  Claim that terrorists caused Russian airlines crash in Egypt "can't be considered accurate", says Russian transport minister

  Read: Islamic State claims responsibility for downing Russian plane in Egypt

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 08:43 PM

  The North Sinai prosecution office summoned air and ground traffic control officials for questioning over the incident, and ordered a technical team from the Civil Aviation Ministry to analyse the contents of the plane's black box, said state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram's website.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 08:42 PM

  Egypt prosecutor general to allow Russian government agency to participate in investigation of crashed Russian plane

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 08:17 PM

  
  Al-Sisi offered deep condolences and promised to create conditions for the widest possible participation of Russian specialists in the investigation into the cause of the crash, the Kremlin said.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 08:16 PM

  Russia's President Vladimir Putin has spoken on the phone with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 08:08 PM

  Russian investigation committee says examining fuel samples from last refueling stop in Samara of airliner that crashed in Egypt

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 07:42 PM

  Islamic State group in Egypt claims it downed Russian airliner

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 07:15 PM

  Russian state transport regulator had found violations during last flight safety inspection of plane which crashed in Egypt. But after the inspection, which took place in March 2014, the airline remedied the breaches within the deadlines it had been set, Interfax reported.

   

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 07:08 PM

  Initial examination shows Russian plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai due to technical fault, say north Sinai security sources

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 06:50 PM

  Russian officials searching Moscow offices of Kogalymavia, have seized documents line Kogalymavia respected flight safety rules

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 06:38 PM

  Egyptian authorities report that there are no survivors in the Russian plane crash

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 06:35 PM

  Pilot  had reported technical problems in flying the plane. The Russian RIA news agency, citing sources at Sharm el-Sheikh, said: "The pilot contacted the dispatcher and reported technical problems, asking for a change of the route and a landing at Cairo airport, after which communication was broken."  

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 06:25 PM

  Russian Airline Kogalymavia says sees no grounds to blame human error for crash in Egypt

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 06:12 PM

  Russian President Vladimir Putin orders emergency teams to Egypt plane crash site

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 06:10 PM

  A Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday was carrying 214 Russian passengers and three Ukrainians, the Egyptian cabinet said in a statement. Out of the total 217 passengers, 138 were women, 62 men and 17 were children, the cabinet statement added.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 05:22 PM

  Russia Putin declares National Day of Mourning on November 1 after plane crash in Egypt

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 05:22 PM

  Egyptian rescue team finds crashed Russian plane's black box

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 04:30 PM

  Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Mohamed Hossam Kemal said it was "too soon to determine the cause" of a Russian passenger plane crash in the country's Sinai peninsula, a cabinet statement quoted him as saying on Saturday.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 04:30 PM

  Russia's top Investigative Committee has launched a case against airline Kogalymavia under an article regulating "violation of rules of flights and preparations for them" after a Kogalymavia airliner crashed in Egypt on Saturday, Russian news agencies said, citing the committee's spokesman

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 04:28 PM

  Israeli military said on Saturday it had offered its help to Egypt and Russia after a Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in the Sinai peninsula.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 03:42 PM

  Russian President Vladimir Putin expresses condolences to victims' families

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 03:38 PM

  Voices of trapped passengers could be heard in section of Russian plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai, officer on scene.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 03:32 PM

  Egyptian Prosecutoe General orders team of prosecutors to site of Russian plane crash, orders investigation- Prosecutors source

   

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 02:38 PM

  The plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet when it vanished from radar screens, the ministry said in a statement.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 02:36 PM

  Egyptian search and rescue teams have found the site of the crashed Russian passenger plane in the Hassana area, south of Arish, Sinai, the civilian aviation ministry said on Saturday.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 02:33 PM

  Most passengers likely to have died, says security officer at scene.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 02:32 PM

  Russian airline completely destroyed, says security officer at scene.

  
• 31 Oct 2015, 02:26 PM

  Egyptian security sources said there was no indication that the plane had been shot down. Islamist militants are active in parts of Sinai.