Airbus A-321 of Metrojet crashed in Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 on board

It was a major disaster in which all 224 on boards has been killed. The flight had taken off for St Petersburg from the holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and crashed in the Sinai Peninsula. The crash happened shortly after takeoff.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 1 November 2015.

The ISIS has claimed reprehensibility for the crash but Egyptian officials have indicated that the pilot had radioed air traffic control to report technical difficulties and had requested for an emergency landing at the nearest airport before losing contact with air traffic controllers.
However, Kogalymavia, the company that owns Metrojet, has claimed that the plane was in "full working order" and was being operated by an extremely experienced crew.
The details supplied by Metrojet are that the plane was an Airbus A321-200 manufactured in 1997 and had been operated by Metrojet since 2012 - it had accumulated 56,000 flight hours in nearly 21,000 journeys. Incidentally, the history of the aircraft as posted by the Aviation Safety Network showed its only previous incident was a tail-strike accident that occurred in 2001 during a landing in Cairo.
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