A Russian airliner crashed in central Sinai, killing all 224 people on board, on 31 October 2015
Flight KGL 9268 was carrying 214 Russian and three Ukrainian passengers
It was carrying mostly tourists from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to Russia's St Petersburg
Militants linked to Islamic State say they brought down the Airbus A-321, but Russia has dismissed this claim
The plane is operated by the Russian airline Kogalymavia, also known as Metrojet
Fifteen bodies have been recovered from the crash site in the Sinai Peninsula and transferred to a morgue in the Egyptian capital, the AFP news agency is quoting a government statement as saying.
They have been airlifted to the Zeinhom morgue in Cairo, it said.
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Russia's embassy in Egypt tweets (translated): "No survivors in the Russian plane crash in Egypt"
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Here's the latest information we have on the crash in Sinai.
Sky News
Russian journalist Valey Nachey, who is in St Petersburg near the airport where the plane was supposed to land, says relatives are not being given specific information about what happened to the flight.
Relatives of those who died in the plane crash may be able to go the scene of the accident in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Russia's Tass news agency is quoting an unnamed official at an information centre set up for the crash in St Petersburg as saying.
Roughly three million Russian tourists travel to Egypt every year, according to the AP news agency.
This makes up nearly a third of all of the country's visitors in 2014, it says.
Image source, AFPSharm el-Sheikh is a popular resort on the Red Sea
Image source, ReutersEgypt's cabinet says there were 214 Russians and three Ukrainians on the flight that went down in Sinai, Reuters reports.
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BBC Monitoring
Russian media is reporting, external the offices of Kogalymavia, the company which owns the airline, are being searched.
Egyptian officials say there are no survivors from the crash of a Russian airliner in Sinai, according to the AP news agency.
Russian media is reporting that the deputy mayor of Pskov, Alexander Kopylov, was on board the plane that crashed on the Sinai Peninsula, along with his wife.
Ivan Tsetsersky, mayor of the city in western Russia, told the Tass news agency that both their names appear on the passenger list.
BBC Monitoring
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said he is "deeply shaken" by the crash.
He posted on Facebook, external (translated from Russian):
Quote MessageA terrible tragedy that has claimed the lives of people who were full of strength and had so many plans. This is a huge and irreplaceable loss. Details of what happened will be meticulously investigated."
BBC Monitoring
Egypt's state-run news agency MENA says the country's Civil Aviation Ministry's investigation team has arrived at the crash scene in central Sinai.
More information is emerging, but here's what we know at the moment:
Mikail Robertson from the flight tracking service Flight Radar 24 has been giving more details about what could have happened after the flight left Sharm el-Sheik.
“It was climbing quite normally when after 23 minutes when it passed 30,000ft it suddenly started to lose speed,” he told BBC World.
“It went down from 400 knots to 62 knots and then it suddenly started to drop very fast… after about 20 seconds we lost the signal from this aircraft.”
He said it was hard to say what could have caused this to happen.
Quote MessageThe very sudden drop of speed and altitude indicates that this was something more than a planned diversion – this was something happening very very fast.”
Earlier it was reported that weather conditions might be hampering rescue efforts, but local weather observations in the vicinity of the rescue scene suggest relatively benign conditions.
There has also been speculation about militant involvement in the crash. BBC Monitoring has profiled the militant group Sinai Province, which is allied to so called Islamic State
But experts say the aircraft's altitude suggests that it could not have been struck from the ground.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a national day of mourning on Sunday, Reuters reports.
The BBC's Ranyah Sabry in Cairo reports that the flight's captain had asked for an emergency landing at El Arish airport, but the plane did not make it and crashed 50km (30 mile) away. People in Egypt are mainly exploring a technical fault in the plane.
Our reporter says more than 100 bodies have been found across a 2km area.
She adds there are two investigative teams in Egypt looking into the crash: One from the prosecution and another from the civil aviation authority.
Both are liaising with the cabinet, which has set up an incident room.