The Latest: Sharm El-sheikh Airport Chief Has Been Replaced

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Wed, 11/04/2015 - 5:10pm

The head of Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport has been replaced amid growing international concern that the Russian plane which crashed after departing from the airport was downed by a bomb. Officials in Egypt insist Sharm el-Sheikh airport is safe and say they wished Britain had waited for the result of the ongoing investigation of the Russian plane crash before suspending flights to the airport. A top aviation official told The Associated Press that teams from Russian and British airlines assessed Sharm el-Sheikh airport security procedures on Wednesday and "left without making a single remark about it." All 224 people aboard the Airbus A321-200 were killed in the Saturday morning crash that came 23 minutes after the plane took off from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in Sinai. A U.S.

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