MOSCOW (AP) — The British government says it increasingly concerned that a Russian jet was brought down by a bomb and is suspending flights to and from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s office says British aviation experts are traveling to the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the flight that Saturday originated from, to assess security before British flights there will be allowed to leave.
No British flights are flying there Wednesday.
Cameron’s office at Downing St. says “we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device.”
The British government’s crisis committee is due to meet later Wednesday. The crash in the Sinai killed all 224 people on the Metrojet Airbus plane.
Not sure why the UK gov’t specifically is so concerned about this… Anyone?
No not sure why UK is specifically worried, but I’m thinking these two recent russian planes had bombs put in them somehow that were designed to blow up in flight. And assume the reason is in reaction to what they are doing in Syria.
British government would not be saying this if they didn’t have a basis for suspicion. These are cheap, megacheap, Russian weekly charters. Sharm El Sheikh is a cheap, megacheap Russian shithole destination with crumbling hotels. Arab hawkers screaming at bargain-basement tourist hordes in terrible Russian.
Do the package operators cut various corners to save rubles?
Does the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church wear a goofy hat? Think of the airport as sloppy.