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me this headline stood out for me for Saudi duplicity and hedging
their bets
US
Satellite Detects Flash Over Sinai as Russian Airliner Crashed
US satellite reportedly
detected a heat flash over the Sinai Peninsula at the same time the
Russian Kogalymavia airliner jet crashed.
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November, 2015
WASHINGTON
(Sputnik) — A US surveillance satellite detected a heat flash over
the Sinai Peninsula at the same time the Russian Kogalymavia airliner
crashed on Saturday killing all 224 people on board, according to
media reports.
The
satellite’s evidence does not support the theory that the airliner
was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, NBC News reported on
Monday evening.
“The
speculation that this plane was brought down by a missile is off the
table,” the report quoted a senior US defense official as saying.
The
official noted that US intelligence analysts believed the flash could
have been a bomb exploding or a fuel tank detonating after an
explosive blast, the report said.
The
US satellite would have tracked the heat trail of any missile fired
from the ground with its infrared detection equipment, but there was
no indication at all of that, the report added.
If
confirmed, the US reports would likely point investigators in the
direction of a bomb, probably with a barometric trigger, being
successfully smuggled into the cargo hold of the airliner when it was
loaded at the Sharm el-Sheik airport in Egypt.
Crashed jet not struck from outside - investigator
The
Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside
and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from
radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders says.
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November, 2015
The Airbus A321 came down in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday killing all 224 people on board.
The
source declined to give more details but based his comments to
Reuters on the preliminary examination of the black boxes recovered
from the plane.
The
airline, Kogalymavia, has said "external" factors, not
human error or technical fault were to blame.
Alexander
Smirnov, deputy general director of airline Kogalymavia, which
operated the plane under the brand name Metrojet, said only a
"technical or physical action" could have caused the
aircraft to break up in the air.
"The
plane was in excellent condition," he told a news conference in
Moscow. "We rule out a technical fault and any mistake by the
crew."
Russian
officials have said the plane, carrying holidaymakers from the Red
Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg, was likely to have
broken up in mid-air but said it was too early to say what caused it
to crash.
The
Egyptian government said the black boxes were being examined by
Egyptian and Russian experts along with German and French specialists
from Airbus and from Ireland where the aircraft was registered. It
said the search was continuing across the 9 square kilometre crash
site. Security sources said intelligence agencies had obtained a copy
of the passenger list.
The
first bodies recovered from the wreckage arrived
on board a Russian government plane at St Petersburg's Pulkovo
Airport,
where grieving Russians left piles of flowers.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin, who had declared Sunday a day of mourning,
said on Monday the crash was a great tragedy.
When
asked if a terrorist attack could be to blame, Mr Putin's spokesman
Dmitry Peskov said no theory could yet be ruled out.
An
Egyptian militant group affiliated with Islamic State said on
Saturday it brought down the plane "in response to Russian air
strikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land". Russian
Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov dismissed the claim, saying it
"can't be considered accurate".
CNN, of course is obsessed with Amerika
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