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AnalysisANALYSIS: How airlines alter tourist capacity after terror events
The terror incidents in and around Barcelona in mid-August left another of the region's destinations reeling from attacks targeted at locations popular with tourists.
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Egypt and Russia prepare for resumption of air services
Egypt and Russia have finalised a protocol on joint measures to ensure flight safety, with the aim of restoring bilateral air services shortly.
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Egyptian ministry refers to Airbus crash as sabotage
Egypt’s foreign ministry has described the crash of a Russian-operated Airbus out of Sharm el-Sheikh as having resulted from a deliberate attack.
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MetroJet A321 suffered internal high-energy event: inquiry
Russian investigators have disclosed that a MetroJet Airbus A321 which crashed in Sinai a year ago had experienced high-energy damage to its fuselage skin from within.
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MetroJet probe bids to find origin of A321 disintegration
Egyptian investigators are to begin an analysis of debris to establish the disintegration sequence of the MetroJet Airbus A321 which crashed in Sinai last year.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airlines still cautious on return to Egypt
Though the hijacking of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 on 29 March appears not to have been a terrorism-related incident, it can only intensify concerns about Egyptian airport security – five months after the MetroJet A321 crash – and the challenges in rebuilding the North African nation's reputation as a tourist ...
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MetroJet inquiry receives Russian 'sabotage' analysis
Egyptian investigators have referred the case of the crashed MetroJet Airbus A321 to the country’s attorney general after receiving a Russian analysis pointing to sabotage.
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Egyptian probe claims no evidence yet for A321 bombing
Egyptian investigators insist they have no evidence that an explosive device destroyed a Russian-operated Airbus A321 over Sinai with the loss of all on board.
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NewsMetroJet A321 downed by bomb: Russian security chief
Explosives brought down the Russian-operated Airbus A321 over the Sinai, Russia’s federal security service chief has told president Vladimir Putin.
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NewsNo evidence for UK sabotage theory: Egyptian ministry
Egypt’s civil aviation chief insists that the country’s airports employ international security standards, and claims there is no evidence to confirm UK government suspicions that sabotage brought down the MetroJet Airbus over Sinai.
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UK acts on suspicion that sabotage brought down A321
UK specialists are to carry out a security assessment of Sharm el-Sheikh airport after the government expressed concern that sabotage might have caused the destruction of a Russian-operated Airbus A321 over the Sinai peninsula.
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Kogalymavia defends upkeep of ill-fated A321
Russia’s Kogalymavia is defending itself over the condition of the MetroJet Airbus A321 which crashed in Sinai, having released a number of documents detailing the aircraft’s recent technical record.
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Task of reading MetroJet A321 recorders yet to be assigned
Investigators have yet to determine which authority will handle the download of data from the crashed MetroJet Airbus A321's flight recorders.
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At least one flight recorder recovered from crashed A321
Recovery teams at the site of the MetroJet Airbus A321 crash in northern Sinai have retrieved at least one flight recorder from the wreckage.
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MetroJet A321 crashes in Sinai while en route to St Petersburg
An Airbus A321 operated by Russian carrier MetroJet that disappeared from radar earlier today while en route to St Petersburg has crashed in central Sinai, the Egyptian government has confirmed.
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ABACE: Hong Kong's Metrojet authorised for Embraer Legacy 500 service
Hong Kong-based private aircraft charter and maintenance provider Metrojet has become the first authorised service centre for the Embraer Legacy 500 aircraft in the greater China region.