All of the unrest over the past few years. Now, isis in the Sinai Peninsula has made repeated claimshat they brought down this plane. That is being regarded skeptically because theyve offered no proof. So, for the meantime, the egyptians and the russiaia both calling for calm asking that everyone wait for the rerelts of this invnvtigation. Anan alex, i want to asksk you, the British Foreign minister talked moments ago about how to get thousands of those tourists out of the resort area. Just exactly how do they plan on doing that . Reporter thats right, reena. Well, the foreign minister, philip hammond, said theyre working to bring home these 20,000 british tourists who are still in Sharm El Sheikh. Theyre trying to get them home by tomorrow. Theyre talking about specially monitored flights because for now there are no regular British Commercial flights being allowed to fly in d out. Britain n calling these shortterm special measures, but in the long term theyre looking at what can be d
From abc news, this is world news now. We do say good morning to you. Im kendis gibson. Im reena ninan. We begin with the latest on that doomed russian passenger yet in egypt. British and american officials now saying a bomb is likely to be blameme those intelligence officials are leaning heavily toward an act of terrorism as the cause of that crash, even though ot official investigation is far from over. More now from stephanie ramos. Families grieve. Bodies identified. All while egyptian authorities lead the investigation into what caused a russian passenger to break apart in the sky over the desert. All 224 people headed back home to russia killed. Now, u. S. And british Officials Say new preliminary information shows it is more likely a bomb, not a mechanical issue that brought down the russian jet seen in this new video taken we must suspend flights to Sharm Al Sheikh and advise against all but essential travel by air. He sayses in addition to halting flights, travel advice will a
Man, woman and child on board. British and u. S. Officials now say it is likely that a bomb is to blame for bringing down the plane. The uk took action even further and immediately suspending flights indefinitely, but the investigation is far from over. We go now to abcs Alex Marquardt who is joining us live from egypt. Alex, good morning. Reporter good morning, kendis. Thats right. That investigation is really just starting here in cairo. There are russian, egyptian and International Teams working with evidence that they gathered at the crash site, as well as the two black boxes, which were recovered. Now, the cockpit voice recorder, which will be crucial in figuring out what happened, was damaged, so investigators say itll take a lot more work to get the data off of it. I can tell you that egyptian officials this morning are fuming about these allegations of terrorism from the u. S. And the uk. The foreign minister last night calling it premature and catastrophic for egyptian tourism
Well, good thursday morning. We begin with a growing concern over terror in the skies days after a russian passenger jet crashed in egypt killing every man, woman and child on board. British and u. S. Officials now say it is likely that a bomb is to blame for bringing down the plane. The uk took action even further and immediately suspending flights indefinitely, but the investigation is far from over. We go now to abcs Alex Marquardt who is joining us live from egypt. Alex, good morning. Reporter good morning, kendis. Thats right. That investigation is really just starting here in cairo. There are russian, egyptian and International Teams working with evidence that they gathered at the crash site, as well as the two black boxes, which were recovered. Now, the cockpit voice recorder, which will be crucial in figuring out what happened, was damaged, so investigators say itll take a lot more work to get the data off of it. I can tell you that egyptian officials this morning are fuming ab
Days after a russian passenger jet crashed in egypt killing every man, woman and child on board. British and u. S. Officials now say it is likely that a bomb is to blame for bringing down the plane. The uk took action even further and immediately suspending flights indefinitely but the investigation is far from over. We go now to abcs Alex Marquardt who is joining us live from egypt. Alex, good morning. Reporter good morning, kendis. Thats right. That investigation is really just starting here in cairo. There are russian, egyptian and International Teams working with evidence that they gathered at the crash site as well as the two black boxes which were recovered. Now, the cockpit voice recorder which will be crucial in figuring out what happened was damaged so investigators say itll take a lot more work to get the data off of it. I can tell you that egyptian officials this morning are fuming about these allegations of terrorism from the u. S. And uk. The foreign minister last night ca