Egyptian forces are also battling to end an Islamist insurgency in the Sinai peninsula, where the Russian plane crashed. In March, a man wearing a fake suicide belt hijacked an EgyptAir plane and diverted it to Cyprus. “It is very costly.”Last month’s crash was the third major aviation incident for Egypt since a Russian plane was brought down by a bomb in late October. An EgyptAir passenger plane en route from Cairo to Beijing has been forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan after receiving a security threat that the airline said turned out to be a hoax. The plane and passengers were searched by Uzbek authorities who confirmed that the threat was a hoax.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2016 08:07 UTC