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'Bomb was planted in passenger's bag'

INVESTIGATORS are questioning Egyptian hotel workers amid fears the bomb suspected of downing a Russian jet was planted in a passenger's luggage. Ref. Source 3j

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Don't they check luggage in Russia? Scan it, drug- and bomb-sniff it, open random bags, X-ray it, etc.? How does this kind of thing get through? I do trust, as familiar as the Egyptians are with the aftermath of acts of terrorism, they'll swiftly find the actual cause.

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Another reason why travelling to high risk countries is a big chance on your life. I read that the Russians have almost 50,000 people touring Egypt, that's a huge figure! Any Russian could be a target now.

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In another age, at least some of the fear would have been that the KGB might have planted the bomb to eliminate a dissident or defector. How times have changed.

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Egypt: No sign of 'terrorist act' in crash of Russian jet

A preliminary report released Monday by Egyptian investigators appeared to contradict findings by Moscow into how a Russian passenger plane crashed over the Sinai peninsula in late October. Ref. Source 6j

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EgyptAir says missing Flight MS804 had 66 people on board, including one child and two infants

EgyptAir Flight 804 vanished from radar on its way from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard, the airline said Thursday.

The plane was flying at 37,000 feet when it lost contact overnight above the Mediterranean Sea, the airline tweeted.

The flight left Charles de Gaulle Airport at 11:09 p.m. Wednesday local time and was supposed to land in Cairo at 3:15 a.m. Thursday. Both the departure and arrival cities are in the same time zone.

The location of last contact was 173 miles (280 kilometers) from the Egyptian coast, the airline tweeted.

There was no special cargo on the flight and no notification of any dangerous goods aboard, an airline official said.

The plane had routine maintenance checks Wednesday in Cairo, before it left for Paris, an airline official said.

A distress signal was detected in the general vicinity where the flight disappeared, the airline official said. The signal was detected at 4:26 a.m. -- about 2 hours after the jet vanished. He said the distress signal could have come from another vessel in the Mediterranean. But the Egyptian armed forces stressed that they had not received a distress call.

There's no confirmed information on the status of the missing plane, Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said.

Greek air traffic controllers spoke to the pilot at 2:27 a.m. Cairo time, but the pilot did not mention any problems, aviation officials said. The plane left Greek airspace a minute later and entered Egypt's airspace. Two minutes later, Greek radars lost touch with it.

Greece is taking part in the rescue operation. Ref. CNN.

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Judging from the way it went off the grid the plane probably exploded in mid air since there wasn't any mayday call or anything. A terror attack.

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EgyptAir Flight MS804 victims' remains have been recovered, reports say

A search vessel contracted by the Egyptian government has recovered all the human remains mapped at the site where the plane crashed in May, according to reports from CBS News and BBC. Stay with USA TODAY for continuing updates. Ref. USAToday.