Russia demands from France and Egypt to confirm the explosion aboard AZ21 – RBC

Wreckage of Russian aircraft Airbus A321 in Egypt

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The Russian side has no confirmation of the explosion aboard the aircraft A321 Russian airline “Kogalymavia” that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula. Specialists need to confirm this information from the French and Egyptian investigators Commission, told the Interfax and RIA Novosti source in the Russian Mission to the commission of inquiry into the disaster in Egypt. Thus, the spokesman said data channel France2, who on Friday, Nov. 6, said that the voice recorder of the aircraft recorded the sound of an explosion on board.

«Russian experts will request from the French investigators and the Egyptian Commission confirm the identification of the explosion on board aircraft “, – said the representative of the Russian side. He stressed that “at the moment we can only speak of a vague sounds recorded on the voice recorder.

The source Russian agency noted that to establish” character and nature sounds “and claim that they are in the explosion, is premature. “We have no such data. Let us ask the French and the Egyptians concrete and substantive evidence of their guesses “, – concluded the source.

Record flight recorder A321 shows that on board the aircraft” Kogalymavia “there was an explosion and it was not related to the failure of Engine told France2 investigator who has access to the course of the investigation. Earlier, an informed source in Cairo told Interfax that on the record “black box” before the disappearance of the aircraft with radars heard “uncharacteristic regular flight sounds».

The version of the involvement of terrorists to the collapse A321 «Kogalymavia” in recent days repeatedly expressed by western politicians and media. This, in particular, said US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. After the crash in the Sinai flights stopped Britain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Ukraine, as well as a number of airlines.

The terrorist group “Islamic State” (banned in Russia) twice took the responsibility for the collapse of the liner. However, in Moscow these statements called untenable.

6 November the head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov proposed to suspend air traffic with Egypt, its proposal was supported by President Vladimir Putin. Then Rosaviation officially notified the carriers to terminate communication with Egypt. A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said that this decision does not mean that the priority version of the catastrophe is a terrorist attack.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, the Russian authorities have come from “several possible versions of” catastrophe. “We can not rule out anything,” – the politician said on November 6. He pointed out that before the completion of the investigation no conclusions can not be done.

Airplane airline “Kogalymavia” made flight from Sharm el-Sheikh – Saint Petersburg, crashed 23 minutes after take-off on October 31. On board were 224 people, 217 passengers and seven crew members, all of them died. The disaster was the largest number of victims in the history of Soviet and Russian aviation.