MOSCOW (Sputnik) – German, French and Airbus experts will assist the investigation into the Russian airliner crash in Egypt that claimed 224 lives, the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) said Saturday.
"A first team, consisting of two BEA Safety Investigators, accompanied by six technical advisers from Airbus, will leave for Egypt Sunday, November 1," BEA said in a statement.
Russian and Egyptian officials confirmed there were no survivors aboard the Airbus-321 flight 9268 en route from the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg that crashed on the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday.
Egyptian Prime Minister Sheri Ismail said at a press briefing in Cairo investigators began reading the flight data recorder recovered at the crash site.
