Source: BBC News
The Russian airline Kogalymavia has blamed “external influence” for Saturday’s Sinai plane crash which killed 224 people.
A senior airline official said: “The only reasonable explanation is that it was [due to] external influence.”
An investigation by aviation experts using data from the aircraft’s “black boxes” has yet to give its conclusions.
A Kremlin spokesman has warned against speculation as to the possible causes of the crash.
“We cannot exclude any version. The investigation is only beginning. We do not know yet what its main focus will be,” he told the BBC.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the crash as an “enormous tragedy” and expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.
At a news conference in Moscow, the deputy director of the airline, which was later renamed Metrojet, ruled out a technical fault and pilot error.
“The only for the plane to have been destroyed in mid-air can be specific impact, purely mechanical, physical influence on the aircraft,” Alexander Smirnov said.
“There is no such combination of failures of systems which could have led to the plane disintegrating in the air,” he added.
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