The site of the crash.
Both black boxes were recovered.
There were no survivors.
UPDATE BELOW...
There were no survivors.
UPDATE BELOW...
RUSSIA'S FLIGHT KGL9268, AIRBUS A-321 HAS CRASHED INTO THE SINAI DESERT, KILLING ALL PASSENGERS AND CREW ABOARD.
THE TEA ROOM EXTENDS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO ALL VICTIMS' FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.
Приносим извинения за ваш великий убыток.
Наши сердца сломаться из-за их смерти.
HERE ARE THE DETAILS AS WE KNOW THEM.
The flight came down early on Saturday, shortly after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh for the Russian city of St Petersburg.
Initial reports from Egypt said the pilot of the Kogalymavia airline had asked to make an emergency landing.
But minister Hossam Kamal said there had been no sign of any problems on board the flight.
05:58 Egyptian time (03:58 GMT): flight leaves Sharm el-Sheikh, the Egyptian cabinet says in a statement
06:14 Egyptian time (04:14 GMT): plane fails to make scheduled contact with air traffic control based in Larnaca, Cyprus, according to Sergei Izdolsky, an official with Russia's air transport agency.
06:17 Egyptian time, approx (04:17 GMT): plane comes down over the Sinai peninsula,according to Airbus
11:12 Egyptian time (09:12 GMT): flight had been due to land in St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport.
Russian authorities say the plane was carrying 217 passengers, including 25 children. There were seven crew members on board.
Egyptian officials had said 214 of the passengers were Russian and three Ukrainian, but Russian officials said at least one of the victims was from Belarus.
On Saturday morning, Egyptian aviation official Ayman el-Mokadem, who the country's media say is heading an investigation into the crash, said flight KGL9268 had asked to land early because of a technical failure.
But Mr Kamal told a press conference this was not the case.
"Up until the crash happened, we were never informed of any faults in the plane, nor did we receive any SOS calls," he said.
All contact with air traffic control had been normal, and pre-flight checks showed no problems, he added.
THERE WAS A REPORT ON REUTERS THAT AN EGYPTIAN RESCUE TEAM HAD REPORTED HEARING VOICES FROM A SECTION OF THE PLANE THEY COULD NOT YET ACCESS, BUT, OBVIOUSLY, THAT REPORT WAS UNFOUNDED.
INITIALLY AS WELL, ISIS CLAIMED IT HAD SHOT DOWN THE AIRCRAFT.
THIS IS NOT THE CASE, SO FAR AS INVESTIGATORS CAN TELL.
INITIALLY AS WELL, ISIS CLAIMED IT HAD SHOT DOWN THE AIRCRAFT.
THIS IS NOT THE CASE, SO FAR AS INVESTIGATORS CAN TELL.
Egypt's civilian aviation ministry said the plane had been at an altitude of 9,450m (31,000ft) when it disappeared.
Security experts say a plane flying at that altitude would be beyond the range of a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile (Manpad), which Sinai militants are known to possess.
Wreckage was found in the Hasana area of Sinai and the plane's two black box recorders were removed, Mr Kamal said. One of the instruments logs cockpit recordings and the other registers flight data.
Mikael Robertsson, from the live flight tracking service Flight Radar 24, told the BBC that the plane started to drop very quickly, losing 1,500 metres in one minute before coverage was lost.
Local weather observations near the rescue scene suggest relatively benign conditions.
The office of Egypt's prime minister said 129 bodies had so far been recovered and were taken to Cairo.
One un-named official described a "tragic scene" ...saying the plane appeared to have split in two, he told Reuters, with one part burning up and the other crashing into a rock.The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.
A spokeswoman for the airline says the pilot was experienced, the Airbus plane had been through all its safety checks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Sunday a day of mourning.
He has ordered an official investigation into the crash, and a commission headed by Mr Sokolov left for Egypt on Saturday afternoon.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promised President Putin he would allow Russian experts to join the investigation.
UPDATE AS OF NOVEMBER 8, 2015:
REPORTED IN 'RUSSIA TODAY':
REPORTED IN 'RUSSIA TODAY':
The Russian A321’s black box recorded an unclear noise before crashing in Sinai, the head of Egypt’s investigation committee has confirmed. However, spectral analysis is required to determine its nature.
The head of the Investigations Committee, Captain Ayman Mokadem, said the nature of debris scatter suggests an in-flight break up, but it is still too early to draw conclusions on the causes of the crash. While both flight data recorders have been found, the investigators are still studying them.
According to the flight data recorders, the incident occurred 23 minutes and 14 seconds after takeoff at an altitude of 30,888 feet in climbing mode, at a speed of 281 knots, autopilot engaged, he said.
Access to the crash site has been impeded by bad weather since Tuesday.
The investigation has established that the pattern of the debris scattered over a wide area of more than 13 kilometers, while not all parts of the plane have yet been found.
On Tuesday, media reported that a US infrared satellite had detected a heat flash in the same vicinity, indicating that an explosion may have occurred on board.
Ayman el Mokadem says there are 47 investigators into Metrojet crash - 29 from Egypt, 7 Russia, France 6, Germany 2 , Ireland 3 . WE MUST WAIT AND SEE WHAT RUSSIA FINDS.
There are no words of comfort in such a time.
Nothing anyone can say alleviates the grief and pain of loss.
So, all I can do is send to Russia, with love, deepest sympathy and to say that many tears fall here are for you all, the families and other loved ones of these victims,
The head of the Investigations Committee, Captain Ayman Mokadem, said the nature of debris scatter suggests an in-flight break up, but it is still too early to draw conclusions on the causes of the crash. While both flight data recorders have been found, the investigators are still studying them.
According to the flight data recorders, the incident occurred 23 minutes and 14 seconds after takeoff at an altitude of 30,888 feet in climbing mode, at a speed of 281 knots, autopilot engaged, he said.
Access to the crash site has been impeded by bad weather since Tuesday.
The investigation has established that the pattern of the debris scattered over a wide area of more than 13 kilometers, while not all parts of the plane have yet been found.
On Tuesday, media reported that a US infrared satellite had detected a heat flash in the same vicinity, indicating that an explosion may have occurred on board.
Ayman el Mokadem says there are 47 investigators into Metrojet crash - 29 from Egypt, 7 Russia, France 6, Germany 2 , Ireland 3 . WE MUST WAIT AND SEE WHAT RUSSIA FINDS.
There are no words of comfort in such a time.
Nothing anyone can say alleviates the grief and pain of loss.
So, all I can do is send to Russia, with love, deepest sympathy and to say that many tears fall here are for you all, the families and other loved ones of these victims,
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