On Saturday, an Airbus A321 flying from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg came down in the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board, including 25 children, were killed in what has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.
“An An-148 aircraft with the [operative group] from the Russian Emergencies Ministry and journalists, as well as recovered human remains, personal belongings, and documents has departed for Moscow and St. Petersburg,” the ministry said on its website.
Soon after the tragedy, Moscow sent a group of Emergencies Ministry planes with specialists to coordinate the rescue efforts at the crash site with their Egyptian counterparts and to search for the bodies of the crash victims to return them to Russia.
