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...
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