The French hide their head in the sand again:

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Jan 5 (Reuters) - France said on Monday it attached little credence to a previously unknown Islamic group's claim to have brought down a plane that crashed off Egypt, killing 133 French tourists and 15 other people.

Egypt again defended the safety record of Flash Airlines, operators of the Boeing 737 that plunged into the Red Sea on Saturday, but Switzerland issued a fresh statement that it had banned the Egyptian company from its airspace on safety grounds.

French civil aviation authority head Michel Wachenheim said France's own checks on the doomed plane had showed "nothing abnormal".

An anonymous caller claiming to represent a Yemen-based group called Ansar al-Haq (Followers of the Truth) told an international news agency the group had downed the plane and would also attack Air France planes unless the French government dropped plans to ban Islamic headscarves from state schools.

Although France says no conclusions can be made on why the plane crashed until all the facts are known, French Justice Minister Dominique Perben said: "On the basis of the information in my possession, (the claim) is not very credible."

Another coincidence I guess. If a plane flew into the Champs Elysee and the Eiffel Tower was blown up in the same day, I believe that France would not blame terrorism.