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It's been around 20 or so years. the carrier itself, flight 9268 was the flight number of this aircraft that is believed to have had a lot of russian holiday goers on board heading back to st. petersburg this morning. 23 minutes after it took off, it disappeared on the flight path over the sinai. >> nic, reiterate for those just joining us, the name of the plane and how many passengers on board. >> reporter: 224 people total on board. of those, 217 were passengers. the other seven were crew members. this is flight 9268. this is an airline that was established in 1993. it's quite familiar to ma...

>> reporter: i can tell you what the family members here in russia will be hearing. they will be hearing what state media is reporting. across the whole spectrum of media here, state media and others, they are at the moment reporting that that plane went off the radar after 23 minutes after taking off from sharm el-sheikh. but they're also reporting at this time, and i have to emphasize this is early stages, but we're talking about what the families are learning here. they'll be learning things from watching russian media. what they're learning is that the pilot made a call back to the ground ...

Carrying some 217 passengers. it had seven crew members on board. our nic robertson reports that 17 people on that flight were children. meteorologist derek van dam is here as well. derek has been looking into the weather situation, which when these things happen it's always a question. what was happening there in the region? what can you tell us? >> so very little information at the moment. as we continue to aggregate all the bits and pieces of information that we do have, it's important that we eliminate all the possibilities, including weather as one of the factors of this potential plane c...

Kosik in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we welcome you and viewers from around the world. we're following breaking news out of egypt in a passenger jet that crashed in the mt. sinai area in egypt. the washington embassy said bodies are being recovered but no reports of survivors. >> let's get you caught up. metrojet flight 9268 it took off just before 6:00 a.m. local time. it was headed from the popular resort town of sharm el sheikh in egypt to st. petersburg, russia. but it lost contact 22 minutes into the flight. >> russian officials say they are sending five rescue planes. thos...

Eknow that egyptian aviation officials are on the scene. also, russian aviation investigators are heading to the crash site as well, according to russian officials. here is what we know thus far as far as the bullet points. the plane, a metro jet flight number 9268. took off from egypt's sharm pop vacation destination in the red sea in the southern part of the sinai peninsula. the plane went down in the northern part of the sinai. 40 miles outside the city. this is a region where egyptian security forces have been battling isis militants. there is no indication at this point according to egypt...