A plane arrives on the tarmac at Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg.
But this is no ordinary flight. On board are the first 144 bodies recovered from a plane crash in Egypt at the weekend which claimed 224 lives.
#Russian airliner crash in #Egypt: #Plane broke up 'in the air'... https://t.co/W9eurGT8Al pic.twitter.com/4jCzn7PhYH— Emirates 24|7 (@Emirates247) November 2, 2015
Friends and relatives have laid flowers in tribute.
Most of those on board were Russian holidaymakers travelling back from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
One man said he had brought his wife’s doll. “It is the one she played with as a child,” he told reporters. “I don’t have words to describe how much we are suffering. Let this be the last tragedy like this in our history.”
What we know about Flight KGL9268
*The Airbus A321 was 22 minutes into a flight from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt on Saturday afternoon
*The destination was St Petersburg in Russia
