Turkish Airlines sends security team to Sharm al-Sheikh

Reuters

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Airlines has dispatched a security team to Sharm al-Sheikh airport in Egypt to assess security procedures, a spokesperson for the company said, after a Russian airliner which took off from there crashed on Saturday. The spokesperson said based on the team's report the company would decide whether to operate flights to Sharm al-Sheikh on Friday after cancelling a flight from Istanbul to Sharm al-Sheikh and the return flight on Thursday evening. (Reporting by Ceyda Caglayan; Writing by Daren Butler, editing by Jonny Hogg)