UK plane entering Sharm El Sheikh ‘missed rocket by 300m’

LONDON // A British tourist plane heading in to land at Sharm El Sheikh came within 300 metres of a missile, newspapers reported on Saturday.The near-miss involved a Thomson Airways plane carrying 189 passengers from London to the Egyptian resort on August 23. British authorities concluded it was not a “targeted attack”.The incident happened around two months before a Russian tourist plane leaving the Red Sea resort plummeted from the sky into the Sinai Peninsula last Saturday (October 31), killing all 224 people on-board.