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Sorochenko, an official with the Intergovernmental Aviation Committee,
made the comments after inspecting the crash site on Egypt's Sinai
peninsula.
The
Russian Airbus A321 which crashed in Egypt Saturday killing 224 broke
into pieces midair, but it is still too early to determine the cause,
Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said Sunday.
"It is too early to draw conclusions," MAK
executive director Viktor Sorochenko said. "Disintegration of the
fuselage took place in the air, and the fragments are scattered around a
large area [about 20 square kilometers]", the official added.
In a separate development, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
said the investigation into the crash causes could take months.
"This is a complicated matter and requires
advanced technologies and broad investigations that could take months,"
he told army recruits in a televised speech on Sunday.
A
Kogalymavia/Metrojet Airbus A321 en route to St. Petersburg from the
resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh with 217 passengers and seven crew
on board, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, leaving no survivors. The
Sinai air crash became the deadliest air accident in the history
of Russian aviation, surpassing the 1985 disaster in Uzbekistan, where
200 people died.
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