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Russia and Egypt are to resume direct flights on April 11 following a more than two-year hiatus after a bomb downed a Russian charter over the Sinai peninsula in 2015.

A Russian Defence Ministry TU-154 plane that had disappeared from radar over the Black Sea with 91
people on board has crashed, the Interfax news agency reported on DEc. 25, citing an unidentified source.

A rescue team had found the crash site in the Black Sea near the coast of the Sochi, Interfax said.

A string of British airlines have again delayed the resumption of regular flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following a plane crash earlier this year.

The airlines first suspended flights after the crash of a Russian airliner near the Red Sea holiday destination on Oct. 31 in which all 224 people on board died.

Egypt said on Dec. 14 that it still has no evidence to back up Moscow's analysis that a "terrorist" attack had downed a Russian passenger plane at the end of October in the Sinai Peninsula.

The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said it smuggled a bomb on board that blew up the Russian jet on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board.

Egypt’s preliminary report on the Russian plane crash on October 31 was released on Monday with claims that there was no evidence that the Airbus A321 was brought down by a bomb.

The Islamic State (IS) group said on Wednesday that a homemade bomb had brought down the Russian Airbus A321 in Egypt in October, Reuters reported.

The English-language Dabiq magazine of the jhihadist organization published a photo of a Schweppes soft drink can and "what appeared to be a detonator and switch", the newswire said.

Russian Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said that the explosion of a homemade bomb of up to 1kg of TNT equivalent was the cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia flight 9268 A321 airbus over Sinai, Egypt, while en route from Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg on October 31.

According to Russian officials, the cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia airplane in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on October 31 was a terrorist attack.

The Airbus A321 was conducting flight 9268 between the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and Saint Petersburg when it crashed in North Sinai shortly after take-off.

Egypt stands to lose 2.2 billion Egyptian pounds ($280 million) a month from Britain and Russia's decision to suspend flights after the Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou said on Nov. 11. 

A reason for last month's crash of the Russian passenger plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula could be a terrorist bombing, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.

This is the first time a senior Russian government official has publicly admitted that the crash might have been a result of a terrorist attack.