CAIRO (AFP) ??” The Egyptian sway defended the airline that operated the charter flight which crashed into the R Sea at the weekend amid make uneasys raised in Switzerland and other countries.

CAIRO (AFP) ??” The Egyptian sway defended the airline that operated the charter flight which crashed into the R Sea at the weekend amid make uneasys raised in Switzerland and other countries.

After the Flash Airlines plane crashed onward Saturday, the Swiss government said it had banned the Cairo-based company from its airspace after finding "serious shortcomings" in single in kind of its planes during a 2002 disgrace check.

"These accusations are totally inaccurate," Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Ahmed Shafik told reporters Monday when asked to remark about the charges behind the Swiss ban.

Shafik said he "categorically rejected" the charges.

"The Swiss authorities had informed us" of a landed estate inspection of the Flash Airlines aircraft onward October 11, 2002, but the "report given to us did not contain any information forward a ban on flights through Swiss territory."

The minister said when the Flash plane underwent the estate inspection at Zurich airport,