Speaking at an event in London, Hisham Zazou who returned to the position in September, said he hoped the findings would be “positive” for Egypt.
Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed in the Sinai shortly after taking off from the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. All 224 people onboard the Airbus A321 were killed.
“The past few days we’ve had some not good news on the ground because of that plane crash in our country in Sinai,” said Zazou.
“Hopefully… the investigation will be finished soon and the outcomes and findings will be out and… hopefully it will be a positive one for our country.”
“I want to tell you… do not rule [out] a mechanical or a technical fault.
He added: “If you look back if you’ve been doing business with Egypt for a while we’ve come a long, long, long way. Security and safety is now… very good…”
Metrojet had denied that the disaster could have been caused by technical failure or crew error.
"The only possible explanation could be an external impact on the airplane," Metrojet’s deputy director Alexander Smirnov said at a news conference.
Meanwhile, Zazou also said that he was looking forward to welcoming more British tourists to the country.
“We thank the UK for sending the business. We’re still… [getting] around… 1 million tourists coming from [the UK]. However, I’m still greedy to go back and even surpass the figures of 2011 when we almost reached 1.5 million tourists,” he said.
