Sinai plane crash: Russian airline official rejects possibility of technical fault

  • 8 years ago
The Russian airline whose jet crashed in Egypt on Saturday , killing all 224 people on board, has said the crash could not have been caused by technical faults or human error.
Alexander Smirnov, the deputy general director of Metrojet, said the cause of the crash "could only have been an external impact on the plane" in the air, causing it to break up in mid-air and plummet to the ground.
According to Smirnov, the plane dropped 186mph in speed and about 5,000ft in altitude one minute before it crashed into Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
He also said the crew did not send a distress call and they did not contact traffic controllers before the crash.
A Kremlin spokesman said there were not yet grounds to rule out any theory for the crash.
Dmitry Peskov was replying to a question at a press conference about whether a terrorist attack could be to blame.

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