Egypt investigators closer to finding cause of Sinai plane crash

Egyptian investigators have fit together some of the fragments of a Russian passenger jet that crashed over Sinai last year and identified the area where the plane's disintegration most likely began, the commission probing the crash said Thursday (September 8th).

The "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the October crash, which killed all 224 on board, saying it had smuggled a bomb onto the plane.

Russia said a bomb destroyed the airliner, which was en route to Paris from Sharm el-Sheikh, and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi suggested in February that the plane was downed due to "terrorism". The investigating committee has yet to release a report.

Members of the investigation commission and representatives of countries taking part in the probe met Thursday to draw up a preliminary report about the latest findings, Egypt's Ahram Online reported.

"Accurate and specialised laboratory studies will be conducted on parts of the wreckage identified by the assembly process, which will help reach most likely causes for the disintegration of such parts," the commission's statement said.

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