Two French experts arrive from Airbus, the manufacturer of the stricken Russian plane
163 bodies transported from the crash site to Cairo so far
Civil Aviation Minister Captain Hossam Kamal said that the ministry's Egyptian committee investigating the Russian plane crash arrived this morning at the crash site in the Hasana area of central Sinai, accompanied by members of the Russian side.
Meanwhile, two experts from Airbus, the manufacturer of the stricken plane, arrived from France at dawn today, and two German experts from the same company are also scheduled to arrive this evening to join the investigation committee.
Kamal stressed that the ministry's Central Administration for Aviation Accidents is equipped with the latest devices and laboratories needed to analyze the data from the Russian plane's two black boxes, and has top-level experts.
It is worth noting that departures and arrivals at Sharm El-Sheikh airport are running regularly, with no cancellations.
On another front, 163 bodies of the Russian plane's victims have so far arrived in Cairo and were taken to the Zeinhom morgue, El Sahel Hospital, Nasser Institute and Boulaq El Dakrour Hospital.
Search operations at the site are being completed this morning by the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Health ambulance team, and the Russian search and rescue team moved with its Egyptian counterpart to the crash site to complete the search and rescue operations and begin investigations into the circumstances of the crash.
Three Russian planes arrived yesterday carrying a number of officials, led by the ministers of emergencies, transport and aviation, in addition to search, investigation and rescue crews and a number of pieces of equipment needed for the Russian team's work, with coordination under way with the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation in this regard.
