Plane wreckage to be moved to a safe place at Cairo airport
The statement of the committee investigating the crash of the Russian civilian plane in central Sinai, announced today at the headquarters of the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation, did not satisfy global or local public opinion regarding the causes of the crash, nor did it offer even preliminary indications in response to the speculation and conclusions put forward by the intelligence services of some foreign countries, and government statements that developed into decisions likely to affect air traffic and tourism to Egypt.
At the international press conference held today, Captain Ayman El-Muqaddam, head of the investigation committee, affirmed that the committee has so far been unable to reach any conclusions determining clear and confirmed causes for the disintegration of the Russian plane, and that the plane's cockpit voice recorder is currently being downloaded. He pointed out that a sound was heard in the last second of the recording, which will be analyzed with special equipment to determine its nature.
He added that the committee is working according to all scenarios and does not rule anything out, whether an explosion on the plane for any reason, be it an engine failure, in the baggage area, or even a deliberate explosion.
El-Muqaddam said the plane's wreckage will be moved to a safe place at Cairo airport for examination, pointing out that the wreckage was scattered over a circle 13 kilometers in diameter.
