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Saturday 31 Oct 2015 - 15:25 Makkah mean time-18-1-1437
 Cairo (IINA) - Egyptian military planes have located the wreckage of a Russian passenger plane that crashed on Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula with 224 people on board, Egypt's government said.
"Military planes have discovered the wreckage of the plane... in a mountainous area, and 45 ambulances have been directed to the site to evacuate dead and wounded," news agencies reported quoting a Cabinet statement. Egyptian search and rescue teams have found the site of the crashed Russian passenger plane in the Hassana area, south of Arish, Sinai, the civilian aviation ministry said. The plane was at an altitude of 9,450 meters when it vanished from radar screens, the ministry said in a statement.
A Cabinet level crisis committee has been formed to deal with the crash. The Airbus A-321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia with registration number KGL-9268, was flying from the Sinai coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.
There was no immediate word on casualties. Egyptian security sources said there was no indication that the plane had been shot down. Islamist militants are active in parts of Sinai. Sergei Isvolsky, a spokesman for Russian aviation authority Rosaviatia, told Interfax news agency that the plane took off from Sharm el-Sheikh at 6:51 a.m.(0351 GMT) and ground contact with it was lost with it about 25 minutes later.
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