Missile avoided by Thomson plane was 'probably a flare'

Egypt foreign affairs spokesman blasts ‘preposterous’ Daily Mail article, saying governments knew there was ‘no danger’A missile that came within 300 metres of a plane carrying British tourists to Sharm el-Sheikh was “probably a flare”, found investigators. The near miss involving a Thomson jet carrying 189 passengers happened on 23 August, about two months before a Russian plane crashed in Egypt last weekend, killing 224 people. Preposterous allegations by @M