Metrojet Rules Out Technical Failure or Human Error for Crash in Sinai Peninsula

NYT ^ | NOV. 2, 2015 | NEIL MacFARQUHAR

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Metrojet Rules Out Technical Failure or Human Error for Crash in Sinai Peninsula

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR NOV. 2, 2015

MOSCOW — Senior officials at Metrojet, the charter airline company whose Airbus passenger plane crashed in Egypt over the weekend, killing all 224 people aboard, on Monday ruled out any technical failure or human error on the part of the airline in the catastrophe.

“We absolutely exclude the technical failure of the plane, and we absolutely exclude pilot error or a human factor,” Alexander A. Smirnov, a former pilot who is now the airline’s deputy director for aviation, said at a packed news conference in Moscow.

Mr. Smirnov said that the crash could have been caused by “an external impact on the plane,” but he said an investigation would determine the cause.

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Not if they found a transmitter device attached to some incendiary type wiring and they know what it was that caused the crash. Perhaps they do not want to tell publicly exactly what they know only that it was not caused by the reasons already excluded.

I suspect they know the cause and are chasing down the etiology and perpetrators of the crash... Money transfers phone calls etc.

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Anything is possible at this moment. They haven’t even finished the evaluation of the black box data.

So far, the Russians are saying they don’t know.

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Perhaps they do not want to tell publicly exactly what they know only that it was not caused by the reasons already excluded.

Man, have I heard that before.