The Russian crash in the Sinai - 11/02/2105

For 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.

Sputnik,

3 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.

Radio NZ,

3 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