By Sandalie Gamage
On October 31, 2015, Metrojet Flight 9268 fell off the radar, right after air traffic controllers noticed that there were changes in altitude and a decrease in ground speed. The airline was heading towards St. Petersburg, Russia, when it crashed down in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
A military satellite detected a heat flash in mid air right before it crashed. The heat flash could have been multiple things. ¨Analysts say...a bomb blast, a malfunctioning engine exploding or a structural problem causing a fire on the plane.¨ according to CNN News.
Russian officials are saying that the plane broke apart in mid air, leaving the 244 passengers on board dead. The United States is growing more confident that the plane was taken down by a bomb.
Though the U.S. says evidence is pointing towards a specific terrorist group, they claim to not have anything to do with the plane crash. U.S. and Russian officials are still looking for more evidence to see how the airline crashed without warning.
They are looking through the plane´s black box to see what it recorded. For now, the families who lost their loved ones have to go on without knowing how they were killed.
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