Metrojet to claim compensation for Russian plane crash

Ahmed Abbas
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Russian experts investigate the A321 plane wreckage in Sinai (Photo Public domain)

Russian airline Metrojet  is planning to demand compensation from Egyptian authorities over the crash of its Airbus A321 passenger jet over Sinai on 31 October, saying it was “caused by a terrorist attack,” the Russian news agency TASS has reported.

Forbes quoted Businessman Ismail Lepiyev, who owns the company, as saying: “Egypt is Russia’s partner in many spheres, these are the relations that have been built over decades, and we respect this and will try to agree to the last on compensation without judicial steps.”

He said the airline expects Egypt to declare the official results of the investigation.

The plane belonging to Russia’s Kogalymavia airline was en route from Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt to St Petersburg in Russia when it crashed over Sinai, killing all 224 people on board, mainly Russians.

Russian federal security officers later said the incident was a “terrorist attack” caused by a homemade bomb containing 1kg of explosive material. As a result, Russia announced it was temporarily suspending flights to Egypt for security reasons.

 

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Ahmed Abbas is a journalist at DNE’s politics section. He previously worked as Egypt based reporter for Correspondents.org, and interned as a broadcast journalist at Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin. Abbas is a fellow of Salzburg Academy of Media and Global Change. He holds a Master’s Degree of Journalism and New Media from Jordan Media Institute. He was awarded by the ICFJ for best public service reporting in 2013, and by the German foreign office for best feature in 2014.