The Kogalymavia airliner did not send an SOS call before it suddenly “disappeared off the radar.” A Russian passenger airliner crashed early Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula en route from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. A top Russian investigative committee has begun a criminal investigation into the crash. The Islamic State took responsibility for the downing. Russia,... 

A chilling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by Colonel General Alexander Zelin, Commander-in-Chief of Russia’s Air Forces, says that the deadly crash this past week of a Kogalymavia Airline flight enroute from the western Siberian town of Surgut to Moscow was due to a ‘critical failure’ of the Tupolev-154’s electronic avionics systems that was unable...