No Survivors Found at Crash Site of Russian Plane

  31 October 2015    Read: 819
No Survivors Found at Crash Site of Russian Plane
Egyptian officials said the airliner was carrying 214 Russian passengers and three Ukrainians.
Egyptian military and security officials said none of the 221 people on board the Russian Airbus A321 which crashed earlier on Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula were alive.

The Russian passenger plane 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.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry of Belarus said in its Russian-language Twitter account one Belarusian citizen could be on board.

The airliner en route from Sharm El-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg went off radar at 3:21 AM GMT 23 minutes after take-off. The Russian Transport Ministry confirmed that there were 221 people, including 7 crew members on board.

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