BLACK BOX OF THE RUSSIAN FLIGHT THAT KILLED ITS PASSENGERS RECOVERED.

International investigators began to probe why the Airbus 321 went down. Investigators have recovered the plane's "black box" flight recorder.

Wadi Al-Zolomat, Egypt: A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt broke up
"in the air", an investigator said Sunday, as the bodies of many of the 224 people killed on board were flown home.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged patience to determine the cause of Saturday's crash, after the Islamic State jihadist group (IS) claimed it brought down the A-321 in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula.

"The disintegration happened in the air and the fragments are strewn over a large area," said Viktor Sorochenko, a senior official with Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, quoted by the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti from Cairo.

International investigators began to probe why the Airbus 321 went down. Investigators have recovered the plane's "black box" flight recorder.


Wadi Al-Zolomat, Egypt: A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt broke up "in the air", an investigator said Sunday, as the bodies of many of the 224 people killed on board were flown home.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged patience to determine the cause of Saturday's crash, after the Islamic State jihadist group (IS) claimed it brought down the A-321 in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula.

"The disintegration happened in the air and the fragments are strewn over a large area," said Viktor Sorochenko, a senior official with Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, quoted by the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti from Cairo.