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UK Flight Suspension Over Egypt’s Sinai Bolsters A321 Bomb Explosion Theory

© Sputnik / Rafael Daminov / Go to the mediabankFragments of a Kogalymavia Airbus A321 passenger airliner / Flight 9268 that crashed en route from Sharm El Sheikh to St. Petersburg in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate
Fragments of a Kogalymavia Airbus A321 passenger airliner / Flight 9268 that crashed en route from Sharm El Sheikh to St. Petersburg in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate - Sputnik International
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The UK government's decision to suspend flights between the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and airports in the United Kingdom lends credibility to the theory that a bomb caused the Russian A321 passenger plane to crash over the Sinai Peninsula, a flight safety specialist at the British Airline Pilots' Association told Sputnik Thursday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik), Daria Chernyshova – On Wednesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron held a Cabinet Office Briefing Room, or COBRA, extraordinary session on the Russian airliner crash in Egypt. The UK government concluded that the Russian A321 passenger jet crash over the Sinai Peninsula might have been caused by a bomb explosion.

"The UK Government appears to be quite concerned over security matters in and around Sharm El-Sheikh today. This adds some credence to the hypothesis that an explosive device may be responsible for the event," Martin Alde stressed.

According to Alde, it is highly likely the plane did not break into pieces at once while in midair.

"The continued availability of the data signals suggests that the aircraft did not immediately completely disintegrate. If that had occurred then usually such signals would cease. This hypothesis aligns with the fact that the tail and rear fuselage were found quite separate from the main wreckage," Alde noted.

What has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history claimed the lives of all 224 people on board the aircraft operated by the Russian carrier Kogalymavia.

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