Tuesday witnessed a big turning point in revealing the mystery of the Russian passenger plane crash that occurred on October 31, as the Russian Security Service (FSB) head, Alexander Bortnikov said that an explosion of a homemade bomb was the cause of the A321 crash in Sinai. "According to our specialists' assessment, a homemade explosive device with an equivalent of 1kg of TNT on board the aircraft had exploded causing the midair breakup, which explains the scattering of the plane's debris over approximately eight square miles," Bortnikov said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He added, "We can definitely say this was a terrorist act," however Egypt has no evidence confirming a terrorist attack, according to Sputnik news Earlier Tuesday, Reuters has claimed that Egyptian authorities have detained two employees of Sharm E-Sheikh airport in connection with the Russian plane crash, the allegations were fully dismissed by Egyptian interior ministry only few minutes after the release of the report. Reuters claimed that "Seventeen people are being held, two of them are suspected of helping whoever planted the bomb on the plane at Sharm El-Sheikh airport." "The news is totally false," said the Media Centre representative of Egypt's Interior Ministry. The Russian Airbus A321 carrying 224 people on board had crashed while en route from the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg in Russia, leaving no survivors. Various possible causes of the tragedy have been set out by aviation experts, ranging from a terrorist act to a technical glitch. Russia has offered $ 50m for the information on those who might have been involved in the terrorist attack on the A321.
