Report: British passenger jet narrowly avoided missile in Egypt this year
By Don Melvin and Radina Gigova, CNN
Updated 5:34 AM ET, Sat November 7, 2015
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Saturday that the international community did not heed Egypt's calls to seriously deal with terrorism. Other countries "did not show a level of cooperation and direct targeting of these organizations that we hoped for," Shoukry said. "I can say these calls were not heeded by many of the parties who are now working to protect the interests of their citizens."
(CNN) -- A British passenger jet headed to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh narrowly "dodged" a missile
in August,
the UK media reported following a Russian jet crash in the same area this week.
The Thomson Airways jet with 189 people aboard took off from London and was headed to the Red Sea resort, according to The Guardian.
It said the jet came within 1,000 feet of a missile in its trajectory August 23, and went on to land safely. The paper said passengers were kept in the dark about the incident.
A UK government spokesman confirmed the media reports, but he did not provide any specifics.
"We investigated the reported incident at the time and concluded that it was not a targeted attack and was likely to be connected to routine exercises being conducted by the Egyptian military in the area at the time," the spokesman said in a statement.
In a statement, Thomson Airways said "an event was reported by the crew of flight TOM 476" on August 23. The statement did not describe the event, but said an investigation "concluded there was no cause for concern" and it was safe to fly into Sharm el-Sheikh.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/07/middleeast/russian-plane-crash-egypt-sinai/index.html
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