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2015 Russian Sinai Plane Crash

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31 Oct, 2015

Plane crashes, 224 dead

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Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus A321,  travelling from Sharm-el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg crashes around 25 minutes into its flight, in a remote area of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. Most of the victims are Russian tourists, returning home from vacation. According to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there were 214 Russian and three Ukrainian passengers aboard. 25 children are among the dead