Daniel Schearf MOSCOW— As investigators search through black box data and wreckage for what caused the crash of Russia's Metrojet flight 9268 over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, experts say Russia needs to do more to address systemic problems with the country's air safety record. While the airline, Metrojet, has dismissed suggestions that a pilot or technical error could have caused the Airbus A321 to fall from the sky just minutes after reaching cruising altitude, Russian authorities are keeping all possibilities on the table, including terrorism. Vadim Lukashevich, an independent expert on Russia's air safety and aerospace industry, believed a technical problem was most likely....
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