Eight square miles. Egyptian officials said the body of a child had been found nearly five miles from thmain wreckage. There is every indication thatat the destruction occurred in the air, Russian Federal aviationer head Alexander Neradko said at a high altitude. More than 100 Russian Emergency workers have been sent to the sinai to help in n e search for victims a a to examine debris. The detailed investigation will involve french, russian,e egyptian and other officials according to strict international rules. One theory is the plane may have suffered structural failure, under a previous ownership, the airbus hit the runway at cairo tailfirst in 2001 and could have reached a critical pot of weaknessssven though it underwent many inspections. The extent of the debris field has also focused more attention on the claiming responsibility by an i. S. Affiliate. The group is known to have surfacacto air missiles butt their effective range is only about 10,000 feet. For some months a number
Claims that turn out to be wrong. I dont put a lot of stock in the claim of credibility at this point. Is it at all realistic to believe that a surfacetoair missile could hit a plane at that altitude . I dont think so. The type of air Defense Systems that can reach 30,000 feet are either fixed or theyre mobile on trucks. Its my understanding that this particular isis group does not have that kind of capability. They have some surfacetoair missiles, some manned pads that are portable. Those kind of systems cant reach that altitude. A number of airlines saying theyre not going to fly over this area. What are we to make of that . I think its prudence. Right . We dont know what happened here. As long as we dont know what happened, its probably prudent to avoid the area. Michael morrell, thank you very much. Signup started today for Health Insurance under the Affordable Care act year three. Premiums are going up an average of 7. 5 . But they could be much higher reporter self employed accou
Died when a plane apparently broke up in midair over egypts sinai peninsula. These are satellite images of that region. Investigators are gathering wreckage in a place where militants loyal to isis operate. So far no evidence anyone took the plane down but air france, Qatar Airways are among the growing number of carriers avoiding that air space. Reporter the search area for victims has been widened and with it the mystery of what caused it. Russian aviation Officials Say the debris is spread over eight square mile. Egyptian Officials Say a body of a child had been found five miles from the wreckage. There is every indication the destruction occurred in the air, Russian Federal aviation head said, at high altitude. More than 100 Russian Emergency workers have been sent to help in the search for victims and examine debris. The detailed investigation will involve french, russian, egyptian and other officials, according to strict international rules. One theory is the plane may have suffe
Jeff glor, they were mostly young families on vacation. Today russia held a day of mourning for the 220 224 people who died when a plane apparently broke up in mid air over egypts sinai peninsula. These are satellite images of that region. Investigators are gathering wreckage in a place where militants loyal to isis operate. So far there is no evidence anyone took the plane down but air france, lufthansa, em ralts and Qatar Airways are the growing number of carriers avoiding that airspace, more from allen pizzy . Cairo. The search area for victims has been widened and with it the mystery of what actually caused it. Russian aviation Officials Say the debris is spread over nearly eight square miles. Egyptian officials said the body of a child had been found nearly five miles from the main wreckage. There is every indication that the destruction occurred in the air, Russian Federal aviation head Alexander Neradko said at a high altitude. More than 100 Russian Emergency workers have been s
Drone overnight. An activist group from the isis stronghold of raqqa reporting the death of jihadi john in a drone strike. American aidorker peter kassig who became known as abdulrahman while a hostage graduate, turned gang member. Freed hostages describe him as sadistic. One of 4 british isis guards they called the beatles. Jihadi john was the leader. An early recruit to isis. Theeihadist group whose reachh now extends from syria and Northern Iraq to north africa. The strike targeting jihadi john comes shortly after he latest isis attack in lebanon where at least 43 people died last night in a double suicide bombing. Jihadi johns family all now british Prime Minister just spoke, calling jihadi john isis u. S. It was an act of self defense. Back to you. Us army colonal stve warren is now saying hes quote reasonably certain that the strike killed announcement yet. The topic of isis has reached the deccion 2016 campaign trail. In an Iowa Campaign stop last night donald trump gave a glimp