Reuters: Russian airliner with 224 aboard crashes in Egypt's Sinai
A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday, and a security officer at the scene said most passengers appeared to have been killed.
The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.
An authoritative Sweden-based aviation tracking service said the aircraft, having made an apparently smooth take off, lurched into a rapid descent shortly after approaching cruising altitude.
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