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Say that there are other oath or to say that they're reluctant to spread this kind of a kind of information because that risks spreading fear which of course is exactly what the extremists would want simon young from the political desk thank you next to russia where the captain of a russian passenger plane is being hailed as a hero after he landed his aircraft in a cornfield shortly after takeoff from moscow on all on board survived and the pilot's action is being compared to the famous landing on the hudson river in the u.s. 10 years ago in both cases the planes hit by flocks of birds were ca...

President al sisi downplayed terrorism as a cause saying quote when there's propaganda that it crashed because of isis, this is one way to damage the stability and security of egypt and the image of egypt. believe me the situation in sinai, especially this limited area is under our full control. as investigators sift through the debris and examine the flight's black boxes, no one is ruling out terrorism as a cause. an on-board bomb is still a possibility. but so, too, is a mechanical malfunction. russia's airline industry has long had a spotty safety record and the airbus a-321 suffered struct...

They've done before, to a warehouse, then try and reconstruct the aircraft to try and find out exactly what's happened. but these are early days and early, of course, at the moment is pure speculation. >> and also, again, just talking about this information that's coming across the airwaves and that's also online, i want to reiterate from what we are learning here at cnn, even though this happened, this plane crashed in a contested area, there is no information, again, no information to indicate that this plane might have been shot down as there are some theories out there -- >> you're right q...

>> the reports that are being reported here in russian media, on russian television, people here are told to expect a press briefing in the next hour from the airport at st. petersburg. we'll wait to see if that happens. also the emergency ministry are sending three planes to egypt to help with the investigation. the government has established a hotline for families to call into. the foreign ministry is saying when they get more details they will make those details available to the press. the details that we have so far are this, that there were 224 people on board the aircraft when it took of...

But it does seem at the moment that the russian authorities are moving quickly, establishing a hotline, sending three aircraft to egypt to help in the recovery here and the investigation. and also to try to provide information, foreign ministry saying it will provide more information when the details become available. >> nic robertson live in moscow, thank you so much for your reporting. now let's turn to our own ian lee live in cairo, egypt, following the story there. ian, we understand that ambulances, 20 of them, are on their way to the crash site. what more do we know from egypt? >> george...