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Moment. i want an update from britain where officials are publicly acknowledging the likelihood the plane was bombed. phil black is just outside number ten downing street in london. what are you picking up over there? what s the latest, milphil? reporter: experts on the ground at the airport today say that they believe the egyptian authorities have stepped up the security there, but more work needs to be done so for that reason, the british government has extended it s suspension of all direct flights between the airport and the united kingdom. multiple flights a day. it means there are now a number, a large number of british tourists who for the moment are stranded in egypt and the british government says it will do what id neats to get flights. this started earlier in the day with an extraordinary statement ....
On conclusions from the investigation. erin mclaughlin, thanks very much. we ll check back with you. in the meantime let s get more now. joining us former ntsb managing director, our cnn aviation analyst peter goelz, paul cruickshank, our aviation correspondent richard quest and former head of security for israel s el al airlines. paul, isis is taking responsibility, credit in their word, for this. they re doing so publicly. they won t say how they did it. why would they be coy? well, i think the reason they may be being coy if it is indeed them is that they ve perhaps recruited an insider at sharm el sheikh airport to help them infiltrate this device on to the aircraft. and they didn t want to expose this mole or somebody they paid off at the airport. they were very, very coy indeed in their statement. an audiotape released today saying we re not going to tell you how we did this, it will be up to you to find out. ....
And concerns in the region and raising security and communicated to the egyptians that also there were concerns in the region about the security at the airport in egypt. to directly link this disaster to terror, has the russian government responded to the report here in london and washington it was probably a bomb planted on board by isis or an affiliate? reporter: it points towards egypt, it s been notable and people have been noticing it and commenting since this event happened has not taken the lead on this as he normally does. his spokesperson said in vent days not to link events in syria ....
The u.s. embassy in cairo has told u.s. employees not to travel to the sinai peninsula. this could be an inside operation. somebody that is or some people that are familiar with how the baggage process works. and let s not just limit it to the cargo hold. catering could be involved with this too. isis has put out two statements claiming responsibility for bringing down the plane, but they have not given any details. the u.s. official says the administration has not come to a firm conclusion, but the belief it s a bomb is based in part on monitoring of internal isis messages separate from the group s public claims of responsibility. the u.s. did not know if the bomb plot in advance but had seen militant activity in sinai in recent weeks that had caused concern. the egyptian government says the airport is safe. ....
They are analyzing that in terms of the cockpit voice recorder while they say that is partially damaged, that they say is going to take more time. analysis of those black boxes very much an international effort. egypt is leading the investigation. russia taking part but also germany, france and ireland and we ve heard from a french official saying that at the moment they weren t able to drive any sort of conclusions from the data that it is still being analyzed. from the start, egyptian officials have been down playing the idea that terrorism could have taken the plane down. egyptian president saying isis claim of responsibility was pure propaganda, wolf? what is being done at the airport where you are now to increase security? reporter: well exact measures remain to be seen. ....