Russian Airline Says External Force Must Have Caused Plane Crash

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The Russian airline Kogalymavia blames "external influence" for Saturday's Sinai plane crash which killed 224 people.

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The passenger plane that crashed in Sinai, Egypt, must have been damaged by an external force in flight the Russian airline has said.

The airline Kogalymavia, which uses the brand name Metrojet, owns the Airbus A321 that crashed in Egypt just 20 minutes after it took off from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport on Saturday. All 224 people on board died in the disaster

According to a senior airline official only an external force could have broken apart the Airbus.

Meanwhile the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has urged an end to speculation until the investigation is complete.

Investigators are looking into all possible causes of the crash, including fould play human error, technical failure.

RT reports:

The crew of Kolavia Flight 7K9268 was apparently disabled before the aircraft started its rapid descent and crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, Viktor Yung, deputy director of the airline told the media on Monday.

“As the catastrophic incident started to develop, the crew members were rendered completely incapable. This explains why they didn’t attempt to contact air traffic and report the incident happening on board,” he said.

The airline doesn’t believe human error could have been the cause of the disaster either, citing the experience of its captain and other crewmembers.

“We are certain that neither technical malfunction nor pilot error” can be blamed for the disaster, Aleksandr Smirnov, who supervises the company’s fleet, said.

The company believes that serious structural damage by an external force may have caused the crash.

“The only possible explanation is a mechanical force acting on the aircraft,” Smirnov said. “There is no combination of system failures that could have broken the plane apart in the air.”

The company gave assurances that the crashed Airbus had passed all necessary tests, including a check for metal fatigue in 2014, an inspection that must be done every six years.

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