Black box from crashed Russian Metrojet points to an attack and explosion. Accept it and get down to business!

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One of the black boxes from the crashed Russian Metrojet, going to St. Petersburg from the Egyptian resort, Sharma el-Sheikh, investigators now say points to an explosion inside of the plane.

Technically, the investigation is not over, but the investigators do not feel there were any technical issues with the downed plane.

It will be a blow to the Egyptian tourist industry, but the lives of those traveling mean more than the industry. 224 people left this world when that plane exploded.

Egypt had been warned about security, but the investigators now feel a bomb could have been brought on board by a passenger, or put in an onboard object.

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Black box data from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt last week indicates it was hit by a bomb, sources said, before an Egypt-led probe into the disaster was set to release its first findings Saturday.

Both the flight data and voice recorders failed 24 minutes after the plane took off from the Sharm el-Sheikh resort en route to Saint Petersburg, when it plummeted from the sky into the Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 people on board.

Cairo and Moscow initially dismissed a claim Islamic State (IS) jihadists downed the plane, but growing evidence it was attacked has prompted several countries to warn against travel to Sharm el-Sheikh.

On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin also ordered flights to the Red Sea resort halted, in a fresh blow to Egypt’s already struggling tourism industry.



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'At no point did my luggage go through any scanner - it was bizarre'
A British tourist describes security at Sharm el-Sheikh airport as being so lax that he was able to pay to avoid proper procedures.

Yet more intelligence is emerging indicating that a terrorist bomb was responsible for the bringing down the Russian jet.

This has come in from Reuters:

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Communications between Islamic State leaders in Raqqa, Syria, and persons in the Sinai Peninsula included boasts about the downing of a Russian passenger jet over the area, NBC reported on Friday, citing unidentified U.S. officials.

"They were clearly celebrating," NBC Nightly News quoted a U.S. official as saying. The "chatter" included a boast of taking down the plane on Saturday and how it was done.

The U.S. intelligence community intercepted a message from a Sinai group affiliated with Islamic State that warned of "something big in the area" before jet crash.