Russian Plane Crash Investigators Say Airbus Broke up in Mid-Air

Experts examine wreckage of flight that crashed on its way from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg, killing 224 people.

Remains of the Airbus A321, the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai desert killing all 224 people onboard.

Officials from a Russian emergency commission on Sunday visited the crash site of a Russian jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from an Egyptian resort city on Saturday.

The plane broke up at high altitude, scattering fragments of wreckage over a wide area in the Sinai dessert, killing all 224 people onboard.

Russian aviation officials investigating the crash of a passenger airliner on Saturday comment on the causes of the disaster, saying they ‘will be looking at all possibilities.’