The British government has postponed all flights from Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt after it received intelligence that the Metrojet Flight 9268 may have been brought down by a small bomb.
As a result about 15,000 mainly British holidaymakers are stuck in the Red Sea resort as security experts from the UK conduct checks of the airport.
A spokesman for the British Prime Minister David Cameron said that “while the investigation is still ongoing we cannot say categorically why the Russian jet crashed.”
“But as more information has come to light we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device.’’
It now appears that the Royal Air Force may be called in to airlift passengers out.
The Metrojet Airbus A321, was operating Flight 7K-9268 from Sharm el Sheikh to St. Petersburg (Russia) and crashed on Saturday October 31 killing all 224 on board.
The black boxes of the A321 have been recovered but the cockpit voice recorder is badly damaged.
Other possible causes many be a structural failure associated with tail strike the plane suffered in 2001 or an engine explosion.
Investigators have all but ruled out pilot error.
