>> it is. actually, russia is no stranger to airline disasters. its had more of its fair share over the years, but something about this crash really seems to have struck a chord and touched people, and that's evidenced by this scene behind me. you can see even nearly three days after this catastrophe people are still coming, they're laying flowers, they're lighting candles, they're putting childrens toys here as a mark of how many children were on the plane. and perhaps it's because of that that it's been so resonant here. the fact this was a tourist flight, it was to a destination that many russians go for a bit of winter sun at the start of what is expected to be an extremely long and cold winter in this country. taking their families with them for the most part with 25 children on board that flight. one of them just 10 months old. there's a photo of her looking out of the window here at st. petersburg airport before she boarded that flight with her parents to go for that beach holiday in the sinai peninsula.