(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) A Russian passenger plane carrying up to 224 passengers and crew has crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has confirmed.
A statement from the Prime Minister's office said the premier had formed a cabinet-level crisis committee to deal with the crash in central Sinai.
Egyptian officials have found the site where flight 7K9268 crashed and said the Airbus A-321 plane was completely destroyed.
The plane, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia with registration number KGL-9268, was flying from the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.
It took off at 5.51 am Cairo time and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes later, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement.
Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsiya said in a statement that flight 7K9268 left Sharm el-Sheikh at 6.51am Moscow time and was due into St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport at 12.10pm.
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