The collapse of the Russian aircraft: the airline says about the "external impact"

The Kogalymavia airline, whose plane crashed in Egypt, claims that the Airbus A-321 was fully operational. According to the company's management, the airliner could have disintegrated into pieces in the air solely under the influence of some external force.

The fact that the plane broke up in the air was previously stated by the executive director of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), Viktor Sorochenko. He confirmed that the bodies of the dead and fragments of the plane were scattered over a large area - about 20 square meters. km. However, it is not yet known at what height the plane was destroyed.

On October 31, an A-321 aircraft of the Russian airline Kogalymavia, flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashedwhich killed all 217 passengers and 7 crew members.

The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation), Alexander Neradko, called the statement of the management of Kogalymavia to exclude the version of a technical error premature and unfounded.

A Reuters report citing a source in a group of experts studying “black boxes”, who said that the plane, according to first data, was not exposed to external influences, added to the contradiction in the data on the external nature of the damage.

The information that the A-321 pilot informed the dispatcher about technical problems and requested landing at the nearest airport has not been confirmed yet.

The extremist group "Islamic State", which has taken over responsibility for the "downed plane"In turn, she did not confirm her statement about her involvement in the catstrophy.

A statement from the IS unit, which calls itself the Sinai Province, said it shot down the airliner in retaliation for Russian airstrikes in Syria, but there was no visual evidence or explanation.

A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said Monday that the version of the attack is not yet ruled out, like all other possible versions, before the conclusions of the joint international commission.

Despite the fact that the United States is not part of this commission, the head of American intelligence, James Clapper, said that there is no direct evidence that this was a terrorist attack. However, the head of US National Intelligence said that one of the branches of the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula has quite impressive forces, and the extremists were potentially capable of such actions.

Previously, experts questioned the fact that terrorists have weapons that are necessary to bring down an aircraft at such an altitude (over 9 thousands of meters or 30 thousands of feet).

The Kogalymavia company, which operated the plane, insists that the plane went through all the necessary procedures before taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, and the error of the crew commander Valery Nemov, who had 12 thousand flight hours, is completely excluded.

According to the site Flightradar24.com, from October 24, this board made at least 15 flights. Among them are flights between the Egyptian resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, as well as Turkish Antalya and the Russian cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara.