*The aircraft was reported missing 23 minutes after leaving the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with 224 on board
*The doomed jet was owned by an Irish company and leased to a Russian airline carrying tourists to St Petersburg
*Initial reports that experienced pilot warned of 'technical problem' shortly before disaster have now been rejected
*The jet was plunging at more than 6,000 feet per minute as the pilot tried to land at el-Arish airport in northern Egypt
*Tonight, Egyptian officials said they had recovered black box, which has been sent away to be analysed by experts
*They also released first images of mangled wreckage of plane, showing bits of aircraft strewn across Sinai desert
*Victims include a 10-month-old baby girl, as well as two siblings aged two and three, and numerous other children
*ISIS has claimed it downed the aircraft - and even released a video purporting to show plane falling through the air Cairo
*Moscow have denied any possible terrorism link in the incident, which was one of the deadliest Airbus crashes in the past decade.
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