The explosives that
caused the October 31 crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt could have been
placed on board by airport personnel at Sharm el-Sheikh, a Russian newspaper
wrote on Wednesday.
The bomb
could have been placed under a window seat of the doomed Airbus A321,
Kommersant newspaper reported, citing aviation and Federal Security Service
experts in Moscow.
According to them, a section of the plane
examined by FSB investigators featured a hole with the edges curved
inside-out, indicating that the explosion happened inside the plane.
“The bomb apparently went off in the rear part of the
cabin, close to the tail compartment. As a result, the tail broke
off and the rest of the pane fell apart, resulting in the
immediate death of all those on board due to a dramatic drop
in air pressure inside the plane,” one of the experts said.
The specialists the newspaper talked to also said
that the bomb could have been brought on board by some of the
airport’s baggage handlers of cleaners.
The Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB, earlier
announced that the crash of the Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s
Sinai Peninsula on October 31 was the result of a terrorist attack –
an improvised explosive device equivalent of up to one kilogram
of TNT detonated on board shortly after take-off.
Experts from the security agency are taking part
in the investigation and analysis of the crash site in the north
of the Sinai Peninsula, where the Airbus A321 came down 23 minutes
into the flight to St. Petersburg. All 224 of those
on board were killed.
The FSB, which made the statement on Tuesday, has
already announced a reward of $50 million for any information
about the terrorists.
All members of the airport staff in Sharm
el-Sheikh are being questioned by police, but no arrests have been
made so far, Reuters reported.
Source: Sputnik News 18-11-2015
