October 31, 2015 12:58 pm | Updated 12:58 pm IST - Cairo
Egyptian air traffic control lost contact with a civilian airliner carrying 212 people shortly after it took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to head to Russia, aviation sources said on Saturday.
The sources said the passenger plane was mainly carrying Russian tourists and that a search was underway.
Security sources in the Sinai Peninsula confirmed reports that an aircraft was missing.
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