‘Noise’ heard on black box recording of ill-fated Russian flight

Investigators heard “a noise” in the final second of the black box recording of the Russian flight that crashed in Egypt, the head of the investigations committee said at a news conference in Cairo on Saturday, but the team of experts has not yet determined what brought the plane down over the Sinai Peninsula last week. The remarks Saturday – which were the first public comments made by investigators since the Airbus A321-200 airliner disintegrated over a dangerous stretch of the Sinai desert on Oct. 31 – echoed reports in French media on Friday that the flight recorders carried the sound of an apparent explosion not believed to be linked to a malfunction or crew error. The crash killed all...