Kolavia A321 crashed in Egypt

I just woke up, twenty minutes before and found on Twitter some bad news. Russian charter flight 7K9268 from Sharm el-Sheikh with 212 people on board crashed this morning 23 minutes after take-off. It is hour old tweet where @FlightRadar24 said that russian media saying that one of their planes crashed. Egyptian air accident chief said that plane is safely with Turkish Air Traffic control on his way to Russia, but Egyptian prime minister while ago confirmed that plane crashed on Sinai in Egypt.

I have also done some researching about airlines, which I never heard off, even though they apparently flying flight to Pardubice, here in Czech Republic. Company name is Kogalymavia - but is mainly known only as Kolavia. Their fleet consist of 5 A321 flying with name Metrojet and two Bombardier Challangers flying only VIP flights. Company was founded in 1993 and had one incident before today. In 2011 one of their TU-154's got on fire during taxiing for take-off.

Crew immediately started evacuation, 3 people were killed, 43 injured. Plane was 30 years old Tu-154, retired from Aeroflot fleet after modernization of Aeroflot fleet after fall of Soviet Union.

I will be updating new information as they are going online, so be ready for new info. Hopefully plane will be found on ground and hopefully there will be some survivors.

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