Egypt's civil aviation ministry said in a statement on Monday that results of a preliminary investigation into the downing of a Russian plane over Egypt's Central Sinai in October indicate that the crash was not the result of a terrorist act.
"The investigative committee completed on Sunday the preliminary report on the [Russian] plane crash," a statement sent to Ahram Online by Egypt's civil aviation ministry said.
"The technical investigative committee has so far not found any evidence indicating criminal or terrorist activity in the downing of the plane, chief investigator Ayman El-Muqqadam said.
So, no evidence to support the 'conspiracy theory' of a terrorist action.
Sure, absence of evidence isn't quite the same thing as evidence of absence, but the absence of any evidence to support the 'conspiracy theory' that the aircraft was bombed out of the air deliberately is desperately thin.
No bomb. No missile. Quite reminiscent of TWA800 when the FBI tried to prove their conspiracy theory and the poor old NTSB was left with the conundrum of trying to claim that their own 'scientific' conclusions were wrong.