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A
convoy carrying the remains of victims of the Russian airliner that crashed in
Egypt, drives from Pulkovo International airport in Saint Petersburg early on
November 2, 2015 ©Vasily Maximov (AFP)
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A plane carrying the
remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in
Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours after investigators probing the doomed
flight said it had broken up in the air. The emergency Russian plane, the first to
bring back the bodies of those who died when the A-321 plummeted from the sky
above the restive Sinai Peninsula, arrived in the Pulkovo airport of Russia's
second-largest city.
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| Russian airline Kogalymavia's flight 9268 crash schematic |
Investigators
from several countries have joined an Egypt-led probe to determine what brought
down Russian airline Kogalymavia's flight 9268 on Saturday, killing all 224
people on board, en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg.
They
have recovered the "black box" flight recorders of the Airbus, and
the head of an Irish mission that will join the Egypt-led probe into the
disaster said the results from the recorders should be ready in a few days.
