The Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke into pieces in midair, but it is too early to determine the cause of the crash, Russia's state-run media quoted an aviation official as saying.
"Disintegration of the fuselage took place in the air, and the fragments are scattered around a large area," Viktor Sorochenko, executive director of Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, told journalists, according to reports.
All 224 people aboard Kogalymavia Flight 9268 died in the Saturday morning crash that left debris strewn across a remote area of a region plagued by a violent Islamic insurgency.
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