ATLANTA, December 14, 2015 (MaraviPost): Egypt is fighting to keep tourism alive in Sharm el-Sheikh after a Russian holiday plane crashed and killed everyone on board, with 17 children being among the 224 victims of the catastrophe.
Investigations immediately following the crash concluded there had been a terror attack, a theory further supported by a terror group affiliated with Isis claiming responsibility for the crash shortly afterwards.
And now the bombshell. As reported by news organizations and immediately circulated by Egyptian media, it may have not been a terror attack after all.
Egyptian authorities currently deny the existence of any evidence conclusively proving the crash had been a result of a bomb explosion, despite Russian and British investigations previously concluding a bomb had been planted in the plane.
The plane crashed on a Saturday morning early November killing all 224 people aboard Kogalymavia Flight 9268 and left debris strewn across a remote area of a region plagued by a violent Islamic insurgency.
“Disintegration of the fuselage took place in the air, and the fragments were scattered around a large area (about 20 square kilometers),” Viktor Sorochenko, executive director of Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee, told journalists, according to reports.
