The authorities of the Russian Federation announced a possible terrorist attack on board the passenger aircraft A321

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that 224 people were killed on board the Russian aircraft A321, as a result of the collapse of which the Sinai Peninsula, a terrorist attack could occur.

"The probability of a terrorist act is naturally preserved as the reason for what happened," Medvedev said in an interview with Rossiy newspaper , which will be completely published in the printed version of the publication on November 11.

According to him, the authorities of the Russian Federation expect to take out Russian citizens who are resting in Egypt in two weeks, but if necessary, they will continue these efforts after. “No one wants to break vacations, holidays, weekends; people who have gone for a certain period, they must stay this period, and then return, but return in a special regime,” Medvedev said.

He indicated that baggage is delivered separately, since "its transportation is associated with increased danger." “We perfectly understand that baggage properties are such that control over it is not always enough, and therefore it was not very pleasant, but nevertheless the decision: nevertheless, to transport baggage separately,” Medvedev said.

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Speaking about the situation of Russian travel agencies in connection with the situation in Egypt, the prime minister noted that for them this is a “test” and “unpleasant event” because “contracted obligations cannot be fulfilled.” At the same time, the prime minister noted: "We had similar situations when we were forced to intervene and at the expense of a special fund to help the tourism industry. I do not exclude that we still have to do the same."

“If we talk about the future, about the holidays, about the New Year, about some other events, then I am not yet risking to speak out on this topic. <...> These issues related to ensuring security cannot be resolved very quickly. Therefore, it is likely that it will take a sufficiently significant time. Based on this, tourist flows will form,” Medvedev said.

Earlier, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that the reason for official confirmation of the version of the attack will be a laboratory examination of noise recording in a speech recorder. A source familiar with the course of the investigation of the circumstances of the disaster said that the formal grounds for retraining a criminal case, initiated by the Investigative Committee on the fact of the fall of the aircraft, and the addition of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist attack) is not yet. The investigation is under Art. 238 (performance of work or the provision of services that do not meet security requirements that entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons) and Art. 263 (violation of traffic safety rules and the operation of air transport, which entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons).

The media reported about the "strange noise" before the fall of the liner

The primary decoding of the parametric “black box” allows us to conclude that the plane was gaining height on the autopilot, from the moment of take -off to the fall was in the air 23 minutes. At the time of the disaster, he flew at a speed of about 521 km per hour. The flight took place as usual , information about the failures of the systems and assemblies of the aircraft was not registered. As for the sound registrar (CVR), an incomprehensible noise is heard in the last second seconds. French journalists, citing an unnamed source in the Egyptian commission to investigate the circumstances of the disaster, reported that the extraneous sound is allegedly very similar to an explosion of a bomb.

Israel sees the “high probability” that the catastrophe of the Russian ship in the sky above the Sinai was caused by a terrorist attack, the country's defense Minister Moshe Jaalon said. His statement is given by Reuters.

Egyptian sources reported the 90 percent probability of an explosion of the bomb. Sources in the United States and Great Britain reported on an explosive device on board. This version was later voiced by US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Disaster A321

The A321 aircraft Metrojet (previously Kogalymavia) crashed on the morning of October 31. The fragments of the aircraft were scattered in a large area. It was also reported that the "black boxes" recorded the noise from the explosion, and not the engine. In 25 passengers sitting in the tail of the liner in Egypt, "explosive injuries" were found .

All these facts, as the media wrote, indicate that there was a terrorist attack on board the aircraft. British intelligence considers the Egyptian preacher Abu Osam al-Masri, who calls himself "Emir IG in the Sinai Vilaiyat." He posted an audio recording on the Internet with his own statement of involvement in the disaster.

On November 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin imposed a temporary ban on the flights of Russian airlines in Egypt. It was decided to take the Russians, allowing you to take up to 10 kg of hand luggage with them. Baggage will be transported separately. The media suggested that if the crash of Kogalymavia’s flight from Sharm-Esh-shoha was blown up, then they could hide the bomb precisely in the baggage, since it was checked with violations . Other versions of the causes of the disaster were considered - a fatigue crack or the destruction of the turbine.