The Girl Of Seat 31A , Maria Ivleva , 15

• Plane went down over the Sinai on October 31 in disaster killing 224 people 
• Forensic tests have now revealed bomb was stuffed under seat 30A or 31A
• Maria Ivleva, 15, was in 31A and travelling back from holiday with mother 
• Nadezhda Bashakova, 77, was in 30A, and it’s thought both died instantly

This young girl was sitting on top of the bomb that brought down the Russian jet when it went off with the force of ‘a kilo of TNT’ from underneath her seat. Maria Ivleva, 15, is thought to have been the first to die in the tragedy above the Sinai as crash investigators narrowed down the source of the explosion to underneath one of two seats. Investigators say the bomb, which killed 224 people, was underneath either seat 31A, where Maria was sat, or 30A, where 77-year-old Nadezhda Bashakova was sitting directly in front of her.

Investigators said it is likely that those directly on and behind the seats were killed instantly when the bomb went off with the force ‘equal to a kilo of TNT’.

However, others will have suffered in the panic of the explosion for much longer as the plane plunged from 31,000 feet at a rate of 6,000 ft per minute before hitting the ground. 

The epicentre of the explosion was discovered thanks to chemical and other forensic tests on the Airbus A321, according to a report released today by Russian news organisation LifeNews.

The blast zone for the bomb, which Isis has claimed responsibility for, would have spanned across six rows of seats and left a huge hole in the tail of the plane which sent it tumbling out of the sky at a rate of 6,000 ft per minute.

‘Investigators and secret service experts managed to locate the seat under which the terrorists planted the bomb which destroyed Airbus A321,’ said the report in the Kremlin media

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