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© AP Photo / Amr NabilAn Egtptian search and rescue crew transfers the body of a victim of a plane crash from a civil police helicopter to an ambulance at Kabrit airport in Suez, 100 kilometers east of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015
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The BEA Safety Investigators team, alongside two German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) safety investigators, will join four Russian Interstate Aviation Committee investigators on the ground of the site of the Russian airliner crash in Egypt.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – German, French and Airbus experts will assist the investigation into the Russian airliner crash in Egypt that claimed 224 lives, the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) said Saturday.

"A first team, consisting of two BEA Safety Investigators, accompanied by six technical advisers from Airbus, will leave for Egypt Sunday, November 1," BEA said in a statement.

In this image released by the Prime Minister's office, Sherif Ismail, right, looks at the remains of a crashed passenger jet in Hassana Egypt, Friday, Oct. 31, 2015 - Sputnik International
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It added that the team, alongside two German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) safety investigators, will join four Russian Interstate Aviation Committee investigators on the ground.

Russian and Egyptian officials confirmed there were no survivors aboard the Airbus-321 flight 9268 en route from the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg that crashed on the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday.

Egyptian Prime Minister Sheri Ismail said at a press briefing in Cairo investigators began reading the flight data recorder recovered at the crash site.

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