Russian media reports say unusual sounds recorded in cockpit moment before passenger plane crashed in Egypt’s Sinai. Russian media reports say unusual sounds have been heard from cockpit recordings at the moment a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula at the weekend.
The news came after revelations by US broadcasters that satellite images had detected a heat flash at the time of the crash that killed all 224 people on board the Airbus A-321.
On Tuesday, a US official told NBC News that the US intelligence community believed that it could have been some kind of explosion on the plane itself, either a fuel tank or a bomb.
However, the ISIS on Wednesday insisted it brought down the Russian plane.
“Before the moment of the disappearance of the aircraft from radar screens, sounds are recorded which are not characteristic of a normal flight,” Interfax quoted an unnamed security source in Cairo as saying. A team of investigators led by Egypt and aided by experts from Russia, Airbus and Ireland visited the crash site on Tuesday.