Russie. Bodies From Russain Plane Crash Back Home

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The Russian airline Kogalymavia blame Saturday’s crash on "external influence."

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The first bodies from the Russian airline Kogalymavia that crashed in Sinai, Egypt on October 31, 2015 killing at the 224 people on board, most of them Russians arrived in Saint Petersburg early yesterday, November 2, 2015  aboard a Russian government plane, Reuters reported.

The crashed Airbus A321 plane, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, was carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg when it crashed in the Sinai Peninsula. Russian news agencies reportedly said a first Il-76 Emergency Situations Ministry plane flew into St Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport a little before 6 a.m. local time, carrying 144 bodies.

The ministry said the next plane carrying bodies had to leave Cairo yesterday evening for St Petersburg. Reports say the first bodies were loaded onto stretchers and carried into a large white lorry waiting on the runway at Pulkovo Airport. St Petersburg authorities have reportedly decided that official mourning events will last until Tuesday.

As more bodies were being transported back to Russia, Kogalymavia airline officials  continued investigations into the cause of the crash. At a news conference in Moscow, the deputy director of the airline, Alexander Smirnov which was later renamed Metrojet, ruled out a technical fault and pilot error. "The only [explanation] for the plane to have been destroyed in mid-air can be specific impact, purely mechanical, physical influence on the aircraft," BBC quoted Alexander Smirnov as having said.

"There is no such combination of failures of systems which could have led to the plane disintegrating in the air," he is further quoted as saying.  He acknowledged that  the plane had a damage that had been repaired and was not thought to be a factor of the crash. The plane lost speed and started descending rapidly, and the crew made no attempt to get in contact and report about the situation on board, he reportedly added.

An investigation by aviation experts using data from the aircraft's "black boxes" has yet to give its conclusions.  However, a Kremlin spokesman is cited as saying that terrorism could not be ruled out as a possible cause of the crash.

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