only explanation would be an external influence. overnight nearly 150 of the 224 passengers killed on board arriving in russia. mourners of the mostly russian victims gathering at st. petersburg airport where the air jet was supposed to end its journey. aerials of the crash site show mangled wreckage strewn across nearly eight square miles. but egypt s prime minister says there are no indications that anything out of the ordinary was about to happen on this airline. egypt s civil aviation minister adding, there are no reports the airplane had faults. checks done before takeoff did not reveal anything, and no one received any sos calls. still, questions linger as to why flight 9268 hurled to the ground, in a remote part of egypt, in clear weather. an area plagued by a violent islamic insurgency.
how negotiations actually went on, i don t know. they changed the venue the last minute, and they barricaded themselves for the most time in the hotel with about 100 journalists crammed outside trying to get a glimpse of what was going on. can you tell me more about the crash site? you wrote some amazing dispatches this weekend from the crash site which just really seemed like complete chaos. i mean, bodies essentially rotting in fields, wreckage strewn everywhere. is there any sense that any order has been brought to that scene? it s got a lot better. i mean, the that is to a larger extent because the only ways it got worse would be for horrible i don t even want to start imagining. so now the vast majority of the body bodies have been found and on the way. kharkiv, they have also found several dozen sets of remains,
29 people have died after a philippines air force plane crashed in the south of the country. the lockheed c 130 transport aircraft crashed at patikul in sulu province, onjolo island. the defence minister said 50 injured people had been rescued so far and are being treated in hospital. the incident occurred when the plane missed the runway while trying to regain power. pictures from the scene showed flames and smoke pouring from wreckage strewn among trees. many of those on board recently completed basic training. they were being deployed to the region as part of a joint task force fighting a long war against islamist militants from the abu sayyaf and otherfactions. the incident is not being treated as an attack. i ve been getting the latest from our asia pacific regional editor, michael bristow. there were a total of 92 people on board the aircraft, eight crew members, and as you mentioned, all of the rest, 84, were soldiers who