Xinhua News Agency, Cairo, October 27 (Reporter Wu Danni Marva Yahya) Egypt Airlines issued a statement on the 27th, saying that a passenger plane of the company from Cairo, the capital of Egypt, to Moscow, the capital of Russia, took off because a written safety document was found on the plane. Threat information and return home.
The statement said that the written security threat information was found on a seat in the cabin, and the passenger plane returned to Cairo International Airport safely about 22 minutes after takeoff.
Russia is one of Egypt's most important source of tourists.
On October 31, 2015, a Russian Kogarem Airlines passenger plane from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt to St. Petersburg, Russia exploded shortly after takeoff and crashed into the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, killing all 224 people on board.
The extremist organization "Islamic State" announced afterwards that it had carried out an attack.
After the air crash, Russia once suspended the route to and from Egypt, and it was not until April 2018 that direct flights between the two capitals were resumed.
In April this year, Egypt and Russia reached a comprehensive resumption agreement, and Russia agreed to resume all routes to Egypt one after another.