Metrojet plane crash: ISS Terrorists in Egypt claim responsibility for downing Russian passenger jet over Sinai peninsula

Egyptian branch of the jihadist group Islamic State wrote Saturday on Twitter that is responsible for the crash of an Airbus A321-200 which killed all its 224 people on board over the Sinai peninsula. The plane was operating Kogalymavia Flight 9268 of the Russian airline Metrojet.

“Soldiers of the Caliphate in the Sinai province have managed to bring down a Russian aircraft carrying 220 crusaders and all were killed,” reads a message posted on the Twitter account of the jihadists, who reasoned their action as a retaliation to Russian military intervention in Syria.

The plane involved in the crash was performing a charter tourism flight between the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and the Russian city of St. Petersburg.

It took off at 5:51 local time and disappear off radar 23 minutes into the flight, when the plane was at an altitude of almost 9,400 meters. There were 217 passengers (214 Russians and three Ukrainian) and 7 crew on board.

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The Egyptian authorities have found the wreckage of the plane and the two black boxes, but there were no survivors. 150 bodies have been recovered so far.

Before the Twitter posting of the ISIS jihadists, Egyptian and Russian authorities had announced that the crash was most likely caused by a technical fault rather than a terrorist attack involving the launch of a missile.