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Breaking: Egypt loses contact with passenger plane over Sinai

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Egyptian air traffic control lost contact with a civilian airliner carrying 212 people shortly after it took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to head to Russia, aviation sources said on Saturday.

 

The sources said the passenger plane was mainly carrying Russian tourists and that a search was underway.

 

Security sources in the Sinai Peninsula confirmed reports that an aircraft was missing.

 

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