Egypt Sinai Russian plane crash broke midair

The Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula broke into pieces in midair, but it is too early to determine the cause of Saturday’s crash, Russia’s state-run media quoted an aviation official as saying. “Disintegration of the fuselage took place in the air, and the fragments are scattered around a large area (about 20 square kilometers),” Viktor Sorochenko, executive director of Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee, told journalists, according to reports.