A flight that did not return home: 11 years since the terrible plane crash over Sinai on October 31, 2015, a regular tourist flight from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg became one of the worst tragedies in the history of Russian aviation. An Airbus A321 of Koglimavia Airlines crashed over the Sinai Peninsula just 23 minutes after takeoff. There were 224 people on board, including 27 children. No one managed to survive. Among the passengers were entire families returning from vacation, very young children, students and the elderly. In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, their relatives were waiting for them, who did not wait for anyone from the airport that day. 11 years have passed, but this date remains a day of deep sorrow for the entire country. The last flight of flight 9268 on the autumn morning of October 31, 2015, Airbus A321-231 with registration number EI-ETJ was preparing for its next charter. The passenger plane belonged to the Coglimbia airline company, which operates under the Metrojet brand, and the transportation of the tourists was organized by the tour operator Brisco. Flight 7K-9268 was supposed to bring people home from the heat of Egypt. Most of them were Russians, mainly residents of the regions of St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Novgorod and Pskov. On board were also four citizens of Ukraine and one citizen from Belarus. The passenger plane itself was then 18 years old. Released in 1997, he managed to work for several foreign carriers until he joined the Coglimbia fleet in 2012. According to company documents, the plane underwent timely maintenance, and the last routine inspection took place five days before the tragedy, on October 26. On the eve of the disaster, the ship made two Sharm-Els flights. Al-Sheikh and the team expressed no complaints about the equipment. On that fateful day, the plane was flown by experienced pilots - commander Valery Nemov and co-pilot Sergey Trukhachev. They were helped by five flight attendants. There were a total of 217 passengers and seven crew members in the cabin and cabin.

A flight that did not return home: 11 years since the terrible plane crash over Sinai on October 31, 2015, a regular tourist flight from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg became one of the worst tragedies in the history of Russian aviation. An Airbus A321 of Koglimavia Airlines crashed over the Sinai Peninsula just 23 minutes after takeoff. There were 224 people on board, including 27 children. No one managed to survive. Among the passengers were entire families returning from vacation, very young children, students and the elderly. In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, their relatives were waiting for them, who did not wait for anyone from the airport that day. 11 years have passed, but this date remains a day of deep sorrow for the entire country. The last flight of flight 9268 on the autumn morning of October 31, 2015, Airbus A321-231 with registration number EI-ETJ was preparing for its next charter. The passenger plane belonged to the Coglimbia airline company, which operates under the Metrojet brand, and the transportation of the tourists was organized by the tour operator Brisco. Flight 7K-9268 was supposed to bring people home from the heat of Egypt. Most of them were Russians, mainly residents of the regions of St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Novgorod and Pskov. On board were also four citizens of Ukraine and one citizen from Belarus. The passenger plane itself was then 18 years old. Released in 1997, he managed to work for several foreign carriers until he joined the Coglimbia fleet in 2012. According to company documents, the plane underwent timely maintenance, and the last routine inspection took place five days before the tragedy, on October 26. On the eve of the disaster, the ship made two Sharm-Els flights. Al-Sheikh and the team expressed no complaints about the equipment. On that fateful day, the plane was flown by experienced pilots - commander Valery Nemov and co-pilot Sergey Trukhachev. They were helped by five flight attendants. There were a total of 217 passengers and seven crew members in the cabin and cabin.