Aviation Minister: Control tower recordings showed no distress calls from the pilot before the plane disappeared
Prime Minister Eng. Sherif Ismail stated that armed forces aircraft evacuated 129 bodies from the Russian plane crash site to Kabrit military airport in Suez, from where ambulances transported them to the Zeinhom morgue in Cairo, which has so far received 34 bodies, while some were taken to a number of hospitals.
Search efforts continue within an 8-kilometer radius of the crash by armed forces aircraft and four-wheel-drive vehicles, at the crash site 50 km southeast of Al-Hasana in central Sinai.
For his part, Minister of Civil Aviation Captain Hossam Kamal stated that the black box was found in the plane's tail and is being transported so that the accident data can be analyzed by the specialized technical committee of civil aviation experts, along with Russian international experts and experts from Airbus, the plane's manufacturer, who will arrive early to assist with the investigation procedures, in accordance with recognized international agreements.
Kamal affirmed that the control tower recordings showed no distress calls from the pilot before the plane disappeared from radar screens, and that all aircraft undergo a routine check before takeoff.
