A doctor who examined roughly half the 224 bodies of people killed when a Russian jet crashed in Egypt said about one in five of the bodies had been horrendously burned in the minutes before they died, new reports said Tuesday.
The Egyptian physician’s conclusion suggests that an explosion took down the plane.
But authorities were unable to say what could have caused it, The Telegraph newspaper reported.
The findings support other reports that a “heat flash” had been detected by radar just before the jet went down.
Meanwhile, Russian and Egyptian authorities continued sparring over the investigation into the cause.
Russian investigators said Metrojet Flight 7K9268 broke up in midair, though they did not specify whether it was an explosion caused by a terror attack or a mechanical problem.
But the Egyptian government insisted there was no evidence that the jetliner, an Airbus A321, broke up in the air.
Another report said on-board recordings indicated that a sudden emergency arose on the stricken jet.
“Judging by the recording, a situation on board developed suddenly and unexpectedly for the crew, and as a result the pilots did not manage to send a distress signal,” a source said.
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