Russian Passenger Plane Crashes Over Egypt

Russian passenger plane

A Russian passenger plane carrying over 220 people from Egypt to Russia disappeared from radars, and crashed in central Sinai, according to reports from Russian and Egyptian authorities.

Belonging to a small Russian airline, the plane was flying from the Egyptian resort, Sharm El-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg.


Egyptian officials said that nearly all of the 217 passengers were Russian, aside from three Ukrainian citizens.


Update: It has been confirmed that none of the passengers survived.

RT reports:



The plane was destroyed and all passengers and crewmembers were initially presumed to have been killed in the crash. But later rescue workers reported that they could hear voices as they started recovering the bodies from the debris.



The plane climbed to its designated altitude of over 10,000 meters before rapidly dropping and then vanishing from radar. Some reports in the Egyptian media cited eyewitnesses as saying the plane was on fire as it fell.

