CAIRO (Sputnik) — The Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation has not received information on an alleged visit by US experts to the site of the Russian A321 plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, a ministerial spokesperson said Thursday.
"There is such a report in the media, but we have not received any official request and don’t know anything about them. No one was visiting," the spokesperson told RIA Novosti.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry confirmed on Wednesday that US investigators would be allowed to join the investigative team as the engines of the crashed plane had been manufactured by the US-based Pratt & Whitney company.
On October 31, an Airbus A321 passenger aircraft operated by the Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name of Metrojet crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board were killed. The crash is the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian history.
