Unchecked suitcase was placed aboard Russian aircraft A321

Unchecked suitcase was placed aboard Russian aircraft A321. (Taz).

A loader put an unchecked suitcase aboard the Russian aircraft A321. This loader received this suitcase from an employee of the Sharm el-Sheikh airport.

The security agencies are searching for two individuals. According to the sources, the entire airport personnel were interrogated. The relevant services are examining the appropriate records from the surveillance cameras.

Reuters reported that, "one of the security officials said CCTV footage showed a baggage handler carrying a suitcase from an airport building to another man, who was loading luggage onto the doomed airliner from beneath the plane on the runway."

Reuters added that other sources at the Sharm airport said security forces were searching for two employees who are suspected of leaving a baggage-scanning machine unattended for a period of time while passengers were boarding the doomed Russian plane.

Egypt has denied any arrests of Sharm El-Sheikh Airport personnel. Russia also said that they have not received any information of arrests at the airport.

Earlier, on Oct. 31, an Airbus 321 aircraft of Russian airline Kogalymavia, which was en route from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh Airport to Saint Petersburg, crashed in Sinai.

The disaster, in which 217 passengers and seven crew members lost their lives, is believed to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union.

During the meeting, Bortnikov informed President Putin that the examination of the personal belongings and luggage of the passengers onboard the aircraft as well as the plane’s wreckage revealed the trails of an explosive substance. Hmmm......As i always said these last years: The staff working on airports is the weakest link' 

Russia's FSB chief: Russian A321 plane blown up by homemade explosive device; $50 million reward on perpetrators.

Russia's FSB chief: Russian A321 plane blown up by homemade explosive device. (Tass).

Russian A321 plane was blown up by homemade explosive device equivalent up to one kg of TNT, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) chief Alexander Bortnikov said.

"It can be unambiguously said that this is a terrorist act," Bortnikov said.

According to him, the traces of a foreign-made explosive were found in the airliner debris and the passengers’ belongings.

"In the estimates of our specialists, a self-made explosive device with its power of up to 1 kilogram in TNT equivalent went off aboard the airliner, due to which the plane broke up in the air and this explains the spread of the plane's fuselage parts over a large distance," the Federal Security Service chief said.

The FSB takes measures to find those involved in the terrorist attack on board the Russian airliner in Sinai, the service’s public relations center told TASS.

"FSB and law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation are taking measures to detect the people involved in the crime," it said.

Russia’s Federal Security Service has declared a $50-mln reward for information about those responsible for the plane crash.

"For providing evidence that will contribute to the detention of criminals a reward of $50 million will be paid," the FSB’s public relations department said. Read the full story here.