Egyptian civil aviation authorities are communicating with Moscow to clarify the reasons for the EgyptAir airline flight cancellation, Egypt's Minister of Civil Aviation Mohamed Hossam Kamal said Friday.

Earlier on Friday, Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, where flights from Cairo are received, sent EgyptAir a notification by Russia's civil aviation regulator Rosaviatsia, on the cancellation of a Saturday morning flight to Moscow.

"Egyptian civil aviation authorities carry out contacts with the Russian side to clarify the reasons, which motivated it to make this decision [on flight cancellation]," Kamal told reporters.

Russia, as well as many European states, including Germany, Britain, Ireland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands, has suspended passenger flights to Egypt after a Russian-owned Airbus A321 crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on October 31.

The Airbus A321 crashed en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board. The tragedy is the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian history.