Sinai Peninsula Plane Crash

After being disputed, many are saying that the passenger plane that crashed on the Sinai Peninsula in Russia may have actually been brought down by a bomb, despite previous thoughts that the place may have just had technical problems.  This possibility forced British authorities to delay flights from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the city from where the flight that crashed in Russia departed from.  The plane was travelling to Saint Petersburg, Russia when it crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 passengers aboard the aircraft.  Authorities are concerned with the large area that the wreckage covered, leading us to think that the plane could have exploded and fallen apart in the air, well before it ever hit the ground.  The plane’s tail was found around three miles away from the rest of the wreckage, giving some evidence and reason to believe that the plane exploded near its back end far above the surface of the Earth.  The plane’s wreckage also show that fire swept through the inside cabins before it hit the ground.  

While there is evidence that a bomb may have gone off on the aircraft, there is also sufficient evidence that leads authorities to believe that there may have been problems with the initial body of the aircraft.  The same plane that crashed in Sinai also had problems with its tail in 2001 when it struck a runway while landing in Cairo and required repair.  While the plane’s tail was said to be repaired, the fact that it had issues with its tail in the past gives reason to believe that the plane could have brought itself down and not brought down from any outside source, such as a terrorist planted bomb.

Was this a terrorist act or simply a tragic event with nobody to blame? The world will hopefully soon find out as investigators gather more information and try to come to a conclusion.