Crash Scene Pictures Of The Russian Jet That Killed 224 Tourists In Egypt

Horrific: This is one of the first images of the mangled wreckage of the Russian passenger jet that crashed this morning, killing 224 people
These are the first images of the mangled wreckage of the Russian passenger jet that crashed this morning, killing all 224 people on board.

The harrowing photos were released by the office of Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif Ismail, who visited the crash site in the Sinai Peninsula.

They show the destroyed interior of the Irish-owned aircraft, which split apart upon impact, killing 192 adults, 25 children and seven crew members.

It comes as officials have recovered the Airbus A321’s black box, which is now being examined by experts to determine the cause of the disaster.

The Islamic State group affiliate in Egypt has claimed it downed the aircraft, but has not said how it might have done so.

Torn apart: The harrowing photos of the wreckage were released by the office of Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif Ismail, who visited the site
Cairo and Moscow, however, have denied any possible terrorism link in the incident, one of the deadliest Airbus crashes in the past decade.

This evening, the prime minister’s office said: ‘The black box was recovered from the tail of the plane and has been sent to be analysed by experts.’

It added that more than 45 ambulances have been dispatched to the crash site, with rescuers having recovered 129 victims’ bodies so far.

The jet, which was leased by a Russian airline and carrying package holiday passengers back to St Peterburg in northern Russia, plummeted to the ground less than 25 minutes after it took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. It crashed in the Hassana area, south of Arish, officials said.

Its passengers included a 10-month-old baby girl flying home with her parents, as well as two siblings aged two and three. Numerous other children aged under 11 also perished in the disaster, according to a manifest of passengers published by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia.

The victims’ bodies were spread over a three-mile radius, according to reports.

Devastating: Passengers’ belongings, pieces of metal and other bits of the aircraft lay strewn across the sand following the deadly crash
Security forces discovered the plane wreckage in a remote mountainous area in a region containing many ISIS-affiliated terrorists.

Ismail told reporters experts will ‘start examining the information in the plane’s black box, and based on this we will study the causes of the crash’.

He also expressed scepticism about ISIS’s claim that it carried out the attack in response to Russian strikes in Syria.

The ISIS statement read: ‘The soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane in Sinai.’

But Islami claimed: ‘Experts have affirmed that technically planes at this altitude cannot be shot down, and the black box will be the one that will reveal the reasons for the crash,’ according to state news agency MENA.

ISIS tried to claim responsibility for the plane crash which claimed the lives of some 220 mostly Russian passengers and crew suggesting their action was in response to Russia’s decision to bomb Islamic fighters in Syria in a bid to prop up Basher al-Assad’s regime
Russian transport minister Maksim Sokolov also dismissed the ISIS claims. He said: ‘This information cannot be considered accurate. We are in close contact with our Egyptian colleagues and aviation authorities in the country.

At present, they have no information that would confirm such insinuations.’

While the use of a surface-to-air missile has been dismissed as a potential cause of the crash by officials, an on-board bomb could be a possibility.

The 129 bodies that have been removed from the crash scene so far are being taken to Cairo, where postmortems will be performed to try and determine when the passengers died. The passengers included 213 Russians and four Ukrainians.

This afternoon, German airline Lufthansa said they will no longer fly over the Sinai peninsula ‘as long as the cause for today’s crash has not been clarified’. A spokeswoman for the airline said that ‘security is our highest priority’ claiming that they would use detours to service airports in the region.

Air France has also confirmed that it will not be flying through the Sinai until the reasons behind the crash become clear.

Fatal disaster: This afternoon, German airline Lufthansa said they will no longer fly over the Sinai peninsula ‘as long as the cause for today’s crash has not been clarified’. Air France later said the same. Above, debris from the crashed jet is pictured in the Sinai desert

Remote area: Security forces discovered the wreckage in a remote mountainous area in an area containing many ISIS-affiliated terrorists
Remains: This evening, the prime minister’s office said: ‘The black box was recovered from the tail of the plane and has been sent to be analysed by experts.’ Above, Mr Ismail (far right, in a black suit) is seen looking at the remains of the crashed passenger jet in Hassana
Recorder: In this image released by the Prime Minister’s office, Mr Ismail, third right, observes the plane’s flight data recorder with officials

A sad situation: Egyptian officials receive the corpses of 34 passengers following the deadly crash. A cause is yet to be established

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