New Delhi: Black box of the Metrojet plane that crashed in the Sinai point to a bomb attack, media reported today.
Reports suggested that the flight data and voice recorder showed everything was normal until both failed at 24 minutes after take off, pointing that the tragedy was not caused by a technical fault or an error by the crew.
An investigator who had access to the black box said that the sound of an explosion could be heard mid-flight.
The recent data strongly favours the theory a bomb on board had brought down the plane.
However, France's BEA accident investigation agency, said it could not confirm the report as experts now in Egypt are investigating the crash because the Metrojet Airbus A321-200 was made in France.
A Metrojet flight carrying 224 people crashed in the Sinai Peninsula last week, with US and British officials fearing that bomb might have blown up the plane in midair.
A Sinai-based group affiliated with ISIS had claimed responsibility for the crash, which, if confirmed, would make it the jihadist organisation's first attack on civil aviation.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the suspension of flights to all Egyptian airports.
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