Airbus A321 crashed plane had been repaired.

An incident known as a “tail Strike” had occurred on the crashed plane in Egypt where more than 200 Russian people lost their lives. A tail strike is when the rear section of an airplane hits the runway on landing. The story is according to a reliable source – namely a reputable Sunday broadsheet. This tail strike had happened to the very plane that crashed with tail strike damage in 2001 and had been repaired. The owner of the plane at the time was Middle East Airlines, this from the Aviation Safety Network.  A Turkish airline – Onur Air had  flown this plane and then Saudi Arabian Airlines, and since 2012 it was flown by Metrojet.  These details were given to the accident investigators who travelled to the crash site which was in mountains 60 miles south of el Arish.

Airbus have declined to comment on the incident related to “tail strike”.  The aircraft was 18 years old and had done 56,000 flight hours in nearly 21,000 flights. David Learmount, who is a journalist on Flightglobal, an aviation news website, said “That’s not old for an aeroplane”.

Metrojet – the name under which the flight was operated have had another tragedy in the past four years.  That was actually in Russia.  The Airbus 231 in the past has had a good safety record, and seats up to 240 people, doing short to medium range flights.

This news in The Saturn Herald comes in contrast to allegations of other reasons why the plane may have crashed as readers know.  We will all have to wait until an official report comes through after investigations but nothing can be ruled out as a reason for this incident as we write.