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Russian plane crash in Sinai: experts say Isil may have placed a bomb on board
Earlier on Monday the Kommersant daily, one of Russia’s most respected newspapers, cited anonymous aviation experts saying that the Airbus A321 may have been destroyed by “explosive decompression of the fuselage.”
That doesn’t necessarily mean a bomb: a similar wreckage pattern was seen following the 1997 destruction of an Antonov An-24 near Cherkessk in the Russian North Caucasus.
On that occasion, experts concluded deep corrosion of the fuselage had caused the fuselage to rupture in midair.
Kommersant’s sources said that kind of disaster is unlikely in a properly maintained, modern aircraft, and said a closer parallel is the 1998 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie.
An isolated blast in the luggage compartment probably would not have been enough to destroy the aircraft, but a bomb in the pressurised passenger cabin could well have caused the shockwave that broke up the fuselage, the paper reported.
An alternative theory circulating is that if an engine was destroyed by malfunction, fragments could have spun off and smashed through the fuselage …. http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/11/russian-plane-crash-in-sinai-experts.html
