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Crashed Russian Plane Broke Up in the Air, Official Says


(SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt) — The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt, killing everyone onboard, broke up at high altitude, Russia’s top aviation official said Sunday.
The Metrojet plane, bound for St. Petersburg in Russia, crashed 23 minutes after it took off from Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday morning. The 224 people on board, all Russian except for four Ukrainians and one Belarusian, died.
Fragments of the plane were found scattered over a large area, indicating it disintegrated high in the air, said Alexander Neradko, head of Russia’s federal aviation agency. Neradko, along with two Russian Cabinet ministers, …read more

Source: Time

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