Investigators probing the cause of last week's plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula pushed back Sunday on reports that they have detected the sound of an explosion at the end of the Russian jet's voice recordings, urging people not to jump conclusions, NBC News reported.
Ayman al-Muqaddam, the head of the investigation committee into the crash, said Saturday that investigators were working to identify a "noise" that was heard in the final second of the Airbus A321's data recording.
But Sunday Egypt's Ministry of Aviation pointed out that the 58 inspectors involved in the investigation — which includes officials from Russia, Ireland, Germany and France — signed a statement of findings that didn't include that the noise heard on the recorder sounded like an explosion.
"The committee is continuing to work transparently and is under nobody's supervision from Egypt or others and nobody can force it to have an opinion or a direction," the statement said, adding that the sound will need to undergo "wave length analysis" before its source is determined.
