Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Metrojet Flight 9268" in English language version.
Natalya Trukhacheva, identified as the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukhachev, said in an interview with Russian state-controlled NTV that her husband had complained about the aircraft's condition. She said a daughter "called him up before he flew out. He complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired."
. . . the main part of the wreckage and the tail section were three miles apart. The aerial footage taken by RT shows the wings to have been intact on impact.
6.04[pm Egypt Standard Time] . . . An Egyptian security officer has told Reuters he could hear the voices of trapped passengers from a section of the crashed Russian airliner. The aircraft reportedly split into two parts. . . . 'There is another section of the aircraft with passengers inside that the rescue team is still trying to enter and we hope to find survivors, especially after hearing pained voices of people inside', the anonymous officer told the news agency.
. . . the main part of the wreckage and the tail section were three miles apart. The aerial footage taken by RT shows the wings to have been intact on impact.
6.04[pm Egypt Standard Time] . . . An Egyptian security officer has told Reuters he could hear the voices of trapped passengers from a section of the crashed Russian airliner. The aircraft reportedly split into two parts. . . . 'There is another section of the aircraft with passengers inside that the rescue team is still trying to enter and we hope to find survivors, especially after hearing pained voices of people inside', the anonymous officer told the news agency.
'The disintegration happened in the air and the fragments are strewn over a large area,' said Viktor Sorochenko, a senior official with Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, quoted by the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti from Cairo. Sorochenko, who is heading an international panel of experts, said it was 'too early to draw conclusions' about what caused the flight from the Red Sea holiday resort of Sharm El Sheikh to Saint Petersburg to crash.
