Egyptian prosecutor general allows Russia to participate in plane crash investigation

October 31, 2015 4:50 PM

The North Sinai prosecution office have summoned air and ground traffic control officials for questioning over the incident.

Relatives of victims of a Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt, mourn at a hotel near Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 31, 2015. The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt"s Sinai peninsula on Saturday after losing radar contact and plummeting from its cruising altitude, killing all aboard.

Egypt's prosecutor general has agreed to allow a Russian government agency to participate in investigating what caused a Russian passenger plane to crash in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday, state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram's website said.

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The North Sinai prosecution office summoned air and ground traffic control officials for questioning over the incident, and ordered a technical team from the Civil Aviation Ministry to analyse the contents of the plane's black box, the newspaper added.

Meanwhile, none of 224 passengers and crew on board a Russian passenger plane survived, medical and security sources said.

Search and rescue team members are still gathering the remains of victims, the sources said.

The Airbus A-321, operated by Russian airline, Kogalymavia with registration number KGL-9268, was flying from the Sinai coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak.