Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced Friday that a third plane carrying more bodies of Airbus A321's victims took off from the Cairo International Airport heading to St. Petersburg, Al-Bawaba News reported. Russian Airbus A321 passenger plane had crashed Saturday, south of Al-Arish, leaving more than 200 people dead. The Russian Minister of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov, left Cairo Monday heading back to Moscow, after taking part in investigation held on the Russian passenger plane crash. The search operations are still being conducted at the crash site in Sinai. The Egyptian health ministry official in Sharm El-Sheikh Airport, Medhat Kandil, announced Tuesday that 196 bodies of the Russian victims have been transferred to their country.