ISIL Releases Photo of Bomb That Brought Down Russian Plane
ISIL’s magazine posted a photo on Wednesday of what it said was the improvised bomb that brought down the Russian Airbus A321 over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in October.
Takfiri terrorists claimed that they smuggled the bomb onto the Russian plane after finding security loophole.
The released photo shows a can of Schweppes Gold soft drink and what appears to be a detonator and switch on a blue background.
ISIL also published a photo of what it said were passports belonging to dead Russians “obtained by the mujahideen” (a high value word in Islam that has been hijacked by the Al-Qaeda, ISIL and other terrorist groups since long time ago).
The Kogalymavia A321 air crash took place over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on October 31. All 224 people on board the plane were killed. The Russian airline Kogalymavia had said following the incident that it sees no grounds to blame human error for the Russian plane crash.
Russian-language daily Kommersant said earlier today citing an unnamed source close to the investigation of the crash that the bomb had been planted by Sharm El-Sheikh Airport personnel under the passenger seat.
The paper said the bomb had been placed in the aircraft’s main cabin near the tail section not in the cargo compartment as reported earlier.
“According to a preliminary version, the bomb could have been laid under the passenger seat by the window. Its operation has led to the destruction of the frame and depressurization of the cabin, which had an explosive character,” the newspaper said.
ISIL had claimed responsibility for the downing of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
The Sinai aircrash became the deadliest air accident in the history of Russian aviation, surpassing the 1985 disaster in Uzbekistan, where 200 people died.
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