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In a remote stretch of the sinai peninsula, recovery crews are sifting through twisted metal and debris. that's all that's left of the metro jet flight 9268. this airliner crashed saturday. it killed 224 people. most of them russian passengers returning from vacation. senior international correspondent arwa damon is live in sharm el sheikh with more. what's the reaction there, arwa? >> reporter: well, this is where those victims of that plane were vacationing. it's quite surreal when you look at the scenery here when you imagine what their last days and hours here must have been like and of wh...

Preliminary information but you're looking at fair chunk of this aircraft to put it in those terms. just by virtue there was a lot of recovery of the bodies in one area it seems indicates something about the way the airplane broke apart and perhaps could have impacted intact, perhaps at the rate that it was falling from the sky, it's possible that there are pieces of it that came off and other parts so the remaining passengers may be found elsewhere. but it does say something to the effect of this planned view, it would be better if there was a planned view of the entire exit site, but at this...

Their loved ones will begin. but, again, lia lot of unanswer questions at this stage on what brought that flight down. >> we have covered too many of these incidents like this over the last two and a half years the investigators seem to be going through this phase of the investigation very quickly. recovering the black boxes within hours of this crash. >> reporter: it has been, especially if you compare it to past crashes the most recent ones but that is also due to factors on the ground here. they were able to locate the crash site fairly quickly. the plane went down at around 6:20 a.m. local...

>> actually, that tells me an awful lot. this wasn't a container ship. this was called a rocon. it had ports down below like a ferry ship where cars and vehicles could actually roll on or drive onto the ship. these areas are weak. it's a place you can take on water. m like a ferry boat, if you will, if you think of it in that way but it's not a ferry boat. my guess if it's in one piece that it took on water most because this is a weakness on t- the ship and it sank very, very quickly. >> mary schiavo, thank you. new video from outside one of the six morgues that received bodies from the cras...

Nic robertson who is live in st. petersburg. arwa is talking about how the bodies are going to be processed. we are hearing some could return as soon as today to russia. what are you hearing there from the people? because i know there is a memorial set up behind you that continues to grow for these passengers and for the children in particular as well who were on that flight. >> reporter: yeah, it's a national day of mourning here. the first bodies are expected back today, but it is a huge day of sadness here. we are standing at the airport. we have been watching these floral tributes grow thr...