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Passengers returning from vacation. they were in the resort on the part of the peninsula. 17 children on board that flight also just into us here at cnn. the black boxes have been retrieved according to egypt's civil aviation minister in cairo. let's go straight to cnn senior international correspondent nic robertson in russia. ian lee is on the ground there in cairo. to you first, you've covered this area -- to this point about the developments of this early stage of the investigation. >> a lot of information to go over with you. we do know that the search area has the diameter of 5 miles. wh...

All right. hello, again, and thanks so much for joining me. i'm fredericka whitfield. back to our breaking story. and new details surrounding the crash of a russian passenger jet in egypt. one black box has been recovered from the crash site in the northern sinai peninsula. while the cause of the crash is still unknown, the chief of the egyptian airports company says there is no evidence of any terrorist activity. and the plane, most likely, crashed due to a technical failure. the russian embassy in cairo is reporting there are no survivors. the 224 passengers are relieved to be russian and uk...

Wreckage and try to find bodies of the people killed. also, try to find that black box to figure out what went wrong that caused this plane to go down. the egyptian prime minister along with several members of his cabinet have made it to the site of the crash. they are meeting there with emergency personnel also to oversee the situation. this plane took off a little bit before 6:00 a.m., was traveling for about 20 minutes at an altitude of over 30,000 feet. that's when the plane disappeared. at the rate of dissent topped 30,000 feet. now, 15 bodies have been removed from the site of the crash....

Hello, again, everyone. and thanks so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with breaking news. a russian passenger jet carrying 224 people crashing in egypt and the russian embassy in cairo is now reporting there are no survivors. all passengers are believed to be russian and ukrainian. investigators have arrived at the crash site and bodies are being removed from the wreckage. the plane crashed in the northern part of the sinai peninsula. the airbus 312 took off from sharm el sheikh, the resort town on the red sea. it was bound for st. petersburg, russia. cnn's ian lee is li...

The russian embassy in cairo is reporting none of the 220 people onboard have survived. all passengers believed to be russian or ukrainian. investigators are transferring remains of passengers to an ambulance in suez. that image you're seeing there. ian lee is live for us now in cairo. so, ian, tell us more about how they're able to retrieve bodies and carry out this investigation. >> fredericka, we just heard from a little while ago from egypt's prime minister discussing how this operation is unfolding, what we're learning right now is that it is over the area of roughly 5 miles. they're expe...