Despite the brotherhood’s taste for populist electoral politics, no other GCC member, apart from Saudi Arabia, has declared it a terrorist organisation.
Investigators say that the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data sent to the ground from the Boeing Co 777’s engines as part of a standard monitoring program.
The incident is likely to rekindle a debate about whether black box flight recorders should be replaced with satellite-based systems capable of sending back telemetry in real time.