HERE IS
A SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE PRESS COVERAGE OF THE SHARM EL SHEIKH FLASH
AIRWAYS PLANE CRASH --
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UPDATE:
PLANE
New theory
Only very
late did cockpit crew realize what was going on in Sharm crash
Web posted by
Tarek Atia Sunday, February 8, 2004 00:00 CAIRO
Plane
update
The rudder on an Egyptian charter plane was not
the cause of its fatal crash earlier this month, a top French
aviation official said Saturday.
Web posted by
Tarek Atia Tuesday, February 3, 2004 11:00 CAIRO
Updates...
Sharm black box details emerge, investigators still puzzled...
Web posted by
Tarek Atia Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:00 CAIRO
Updates...
Egyptian charter
plane in trouble in France
Web posted by
Tarek Atia Tuesday, January 27, 2004 16:00 CAIRO
Plane updates
Details
emerge regarding the spot checks that had been conducted at
French airports in the past on the Flash plane that fell ..
Both
black boxes retrieved -- they were "found about 30 meters
apart at a depth of more than 1,000 meters," reports IHT.
Crash ramifications -- CNN says "concerned
Swiss travelers can [now] e-mail the government to ask whether a
foreign carrier is banned
from landing in Switzerland..."
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Tuesday, January 20, 2004 09:00 CAIRO
PLANE SEARCH
CONTINUES
Both black boxes found... one retrieved,
handed over to Egypt.
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Sunday, January 18, 2004 02:00 CAIRO
Latest plane...
Submarine robot Scorpio
begins searching the sea for the charter plane black box today. It
will be joined by Super Achille on Thursday.
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:00 CAIRO
Plane
updates...
Insurance will be providing $350,000
for each victims' families...
A more
advanced robot should help investigators retrieve black box when
it arrives next Thursday...
Downed plane's fuselage
probably intact...
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Sunday, January 11, 2004 01:00 CAIRO
LATEST
PLANE UPDATES
First black box found,
but too deep underwater to find without more specialized
equipment...
2nd
black box also located, but also too deep... investigators have
two to three weeks to recover it, this article says.
Fall out from the crash... banned
planes may be put on watch list
Air travel is actually
getting safer,
says this Christian Science Monitor report...
French-American
dual citizen and family perished in crash...
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Thursday, January 8, 2004 13:00 CAIRO
LATEST
PLANE DETAILS
--Norway service company
says plane was OK
at last check
--Swiss charges inspire
much debate
over plane's safety record
--Aviation Ministry "categorically
rejects"
--Most detailed
story from the International Herald Tribune
--Black
box signal heard...
--Bulk of wreck
almost found...
--Shark
reports false, according to a story in The Independent
--Lots of Yahoo pics
of Sharm post crash
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Tuesday, January 6, 2004 13:00 CAIRO
CRASH UPDATE
The Telegraph reports that
a massive power failure is now believed
to be the cause of the crash...
Meanwhile, reports are also emerging that the company's planes
had previously been banned in Switzerland due to serious safety
concerns. Depending on the report, France was either aware or
unaware of the Swiss claims. Egypt is waiting for solid evidence of
them. This
BBC report has more...
A Reuters story by a reporter named Opheera McDoom
focuses on the scuba diving still going on in the Red Sea resort of Sharm
El-Sheiukh as recovery operations take place to remove debris and parts of human bodies from the crash
that may still be
in the water. McDoom quotes
someone named "Mogli
Mohamed" as saying that debris from the crash may travel
up the coast to Dahab. The story also says carnivorous fish like sharks may
be eating some of the body parts.
An AFP story provides more bloody
details of the search for victims.
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Monday, January 5, 2004 11:00 CAIRO
The crash
Charter
flight crashes after takeoff from Sharm El-Sheikh.
All 141 passengers on board believed to be dead...
Entire French
families died as the Air Flash plane descended into the Red
Sea. AFP reports that "the incident is absolutely not the
result of a terrorist act, but is linked to a technical failure of
the plane," according to Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed
Maher.
The plane had a a problem at
take off and the pilot turned back but failed to make it. Six
complete bodies were recovered; the rest was shards and debris.
More from AFP.. "Civil
aviation officials said there were 133 French tourists on board, as
well as one Japanese and a Moroccan, both women. The remainder
comprised the Egyptian crew flying the plane and a relief crew. One of
the victims was the crew's chief flight attendant, Nermin Mohammed, who
was pregnant and who had married just six months ago, according to her
mother, who joined other sobbing relatives at Cairo airport."
It was the third Boeing crash in
less than nine months...
This Reuters story provides more
information on the plane -- which had been regularly
maintained in Norway, as well as the possibility that French investigators
will join their Egyptian counterparts in trying to find out exactly
what happened.
Another AFP story indicates that
France has opened up preliminary
investigations for manslaughter, and provides details about the crisis
center established in Paris to help the victims' families.
A Guardian story from Paris also
provides even
more tragic details about the families' reactions, including that
one of the passengers tried to call her relative in Paris on a mobile
phone.
This quote is also quite
telling: "Bernard
Chabert, air correspondent for the radio network Europe 1, said it was
'a good little company' that operated two 10-year-old Boeing
737s."
The search for the black
box and other details from the rescue operation are in this ABC
story.
Another story tries
to place the crash in the context of a world
on edge because of heightened security and terrorism fears...
Web
posted by Tarek Atia Sunday, January 4, 2004 13:00 CAIRO
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