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This plane crash takes us to the East African nation of Egypt, which is located next to the following countries: Libya, Sudan, Israel and Jordan.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE BOMBING AND PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in June 2015.
Metrojet Flight 9268 was an international chartered passenger flight, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia (branded as Metrojet). On the 31st if October 2015, at 06:13am local time EST (04:13am UTC), the Airbus A321-231 operating the flight exploded above the northern Sinai Peninsula following its departure from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport (IATA: SSH, ICAO: HESH), Egypt, en route to Pulkovo Airport (IATA: LED, ICAO: ULLI), Saint Petersburg, Russia. All 224 passengers and crew on board were killed. The cause of the crash was most likely an onboard explosive device, as concluded by Russian investigators.
Most of the people aboard the flight were tourists. The passengers comprised 212 Russians, four Ukrainians, and one Belarusian. There were also seven crew members on board, all of whom were Russian. Investigators believe that a bomb was put on the aircraft at Sharm El Sheikh, with the goal of causing airlines to suspend flights to that airport.
Shortly after the crash, the Islamic State's Sinai Branch (IS-SP), previously known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility for the incident, which occurred in the vicinity of the Sinai insurgency. IS-SP claimed responsibility on Twitter, on video, and in a statement by Abu Osama al-Masri, the leader of the group's Sinai branch. IS posted pictures of what it said was the bomb in Dabiq, it's online magazine.
By the 4th of November 2015, British and American authorities suspected that a bomb was responsible for the crash. On the 8th of November 2015, an anonymous member of the Egyptian investigation team said the investigators were "90 percent sure" that the jet was brought down by a bomb. Lead investigator Ayman al-Muqaddam said that other possible causes of the crash included a fuel explosion, metal fatigue, and lithium batteries overheating. The Russian Federal Security Service announced on the 17th of November 2015 that they were sure that it was a terrorist attack, caused by an improvised bomb containing the equivalent of up to 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of TNT that detonated during the flight. The Russians said they had found explosive residue as evidence. On the 24th of February 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi acknowledged that terrorism caused the crash.
In March 2020, an Egyptian appeals court ruled the crash was not an act of terrorism, and it dismissed lawsuits against government officials, Metrojet, and Ingosstrakh. The appeals court ruled that the identities of the 224 victims had not been officially established and it was impossible to issue compensation to them as a result. As of 2025, no final report has been produced.
The aircraft was an 18-year-old Airbus A321-231, serial number 663, registered as EI-ETJ (Echo India- Echo Tango Juliet), that was manufactured in 1997. It had logged approximately 56000 airframe hours and 21000 takeoff and landing cycles.
