potentially significant developments out of russia and egypt. both countries are mourning the loss of 224 people who died when a russian plane crashed in egypt s sinai peninsula saturday. investigators are scouring the crash site for clues as to what brought down the airbus a321. the flight data recorders have been recovered and are being evaluated. bill neely is in cairo for us. what have investigators learned so far? good afternoon. 224 dead, no survivors, and nobody knows why. the investigators are looking for clues in two ways. number one at the crash site. the big news today was that a russian aviation expert who was at that site said that the plane undoubtedly broke up in midair. the tail was found three miles from the nose. many of the bodies were strewn around a huge area. a 3-year-old girl was found four miles from the main wreckage.
who died when a russian plane crashed saturday morning. investigators are scouring the crash site for clues as to what brought down the airbus a321. the flight recorders have been recovered and are being evaluated. the plane coming down in an area that s seen fighting between egyptian forces and islamist insurgents. they say militants lacked the weapons to do that. nevertheless, three major airlines, air france, lufthansa and emlirates all announcing they d halt flights over sinai for the time being. germany issued a warning for flight routes in the southeast sinai. bill neily is in cairo for us at this hour. what are we hearing in terms of why they have decided to stop flying over this area? well, it s an abundance of caution, really, richard.