Russian security team leaves Egypt

BTN News
Thursday, 19 January 2017

A Russian security team has left Egypt after a six-day visit to inspect security at Egypt's Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh airports with a view to resuming direct flights between the two countries.


Sources at the airport told Egyptian media that the delegation checked security measures from the moment of a passenger's arrival at the airports until the time planes take off.


They also said they checked biometric devices used to track the workers at the airport.


Earlier this month, the Russian Transport Ministry announced a group of experts is drafting a report following the conclusion of an inspection of Cairo International airport. Based on this report, direct flights between Cairo and Moscow may resume.


Flights were cancelled after 31 October 2015, when Egyptian Air Traffic Control announced that it had lost contact with a Russian plane that took off from Sharm El-Sheikh en route to St Petersburg.


Twenty-three minutes after it took off, the plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, with officials saying that all 224 passengers and crew members on board were killed, probably by a bomb.

Russian security team leaves Egypt

BTN News
Thursday, 19 January 2017

A Russian security team has left Egypt after a six-day visit to inspect security at Egypt's Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh airports with a view to resuming direct flights between the two countries.


Sources at the airport told Egyptian media that the delegation checked security measures from the moment of a passenger's arrival at the airports until the time planes take off.


They also said they checked biometric devices used to track the workers at the airport.


Earlier this month, the Russian Transport Ministry announced a group of experts is drafting a report following the conclusion of an inspection of Cairo International airport. Based on this report, direct flights between Cairo and Moscow may resume.


Flights were cancelled after 31 October 2015, when Egyptian Air Traffic Control announced that it had lost contact with a Russian plane that took off from Sharm El-Sheikh en route to St Petersburg.


Twenty-three minutes after it took off, the plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, with officials saying that all 224 passengers and crew members on board were killed, probably by a bomb.