Metrojet Flight 9268
EI-ETJ, the aircraft involved seen on 5 August 2014 in a previous livery
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| Flight summary | |
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| Date | 31 October 2015 |
| Summary | Bombing |
| Site | Near Housna, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt 30°10′9″N 34°10′22″E / 30.16917°N 34.17278°ECoordinates: 30°10′9″N 34°10′22″E / 30.16917°N 34.17278°E |
| Passengers | 217 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 224 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Airbus A321-231 |
| Operator | Kogalymavia (Metrojet) |
| Registration | EI-ETJ |
| Flight origin | Sharm El Sheikh International Airport, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt |
| Destination | Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Metrojet Flight 9268 (IATA: 7K9268, ICAO: KGL9268) was an international chartered passenger flight, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia (branded as Metrojet). On 31 October 2015 at 06:13 local time EST (04:13 UTC), an Airbus A321-231 operating the flight disintegrated above the northern Sinai following its departure from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport, Egypt, en route to Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, Russia. All 217 passengers and seven crew members who were on board were killed.
Of those aboard, mostly tourists, there were 219 Russians, four Ukrainians, and one Belarusian. The possibility that a bomb was put on the aircraft at Sharm El Sheikh led several countries to suspend flights to that airport. With its death toll of 224 people, Flight 9268 is the deadliest air disaster both in the history of Russian aviation and within Egyptian territory. It is also the deadliest air disaster involving an aircraft from the Airbus A320 family, and the deadliest air disaster of 2015.
Shortly after the crash, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s Sinai Branch, previously known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility for the incident, which occurred in the vicinity of the Sinai insurgency. ISIL claimed responsibility on Twitter, on video, and in a statement by Abu Osama al-Masri, the leader of the group's Sinai branch. ISIL posted pictures of what it said was the bomb in Dabiq, its online magazine.
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