Second Flight With A321 Crash Victims' Bodies to Depart Cairo on Monday

The second Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) aircraft with the remains of flight 2968 victims will leave for St. Petersburg, Russia from Egypt’s Cairo airport on Monday evening, the head of the ministry’s Aviation-Rescue Technologies Department said.

CAIRO (Sputnik) – Earlier in the day, an EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft delivered the bodies of 144 out of the 224 victims of the catastrophe to St. Petersburg.

"The second aircraft with the bodies of the deceased will depart from Egypt at 8:00 p.m. local time [18:00 GMT]," Vladimir Svetelsky stated.

A Russian Kogalymavia Airbus A-321 passenger airliner, with 217 passengers and seven crew members on board, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on Saturday, leaving no survivors.

The tragedy has already been named the biggest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.