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737 crashes in the sea off Egypt
From BBC's web site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3364795.stm Egyptian airliner crashes into sea An Egyptian charter plane has crashed into the Red Sea, killing all 148 passengers and crew on board, Egyptian aviation and airline officials say. The plane, belonging to Egypt charter company Flash Airlines, crashed shortly after take-off at 0244 GMT from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. All the passengers were thought to be French tourists on their way back home. Wreckage has been found in the sea about 15 kilometres (nine miles) south of the resort, officials said. Relatives "All people who were aboard the plane are dead," Osama al-Sayed, a senior official with the airline, told reporters. The emergency services were alerted when the plane, a Boeing 737, disappeared from radar screens shortly after take-off. Egyptian search and rescue teams in boats and helicopters have found wreckage strewn along the coastline near Sharm el-Sheikh, including the main body of the plane. They have begun recovering bodies from the water. There were 135 passengers and 13 crew members on board the flight which was on its way to Cairo for a stopover and crew change before heading on to Paris, Charles de Gaulle airport. French airport officials were comforting friends and relatives in Paris who were waiting for the plane. .... Flash Airlines opreates 2 737-300 both built in 1993. Pilots with minimum of 5000 hours of flying time. |
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737 crashes in the sea off Egypt (Blair vacationing nearby)
Blair and family were staying at a resort 7 miles from the crash
site. What kind of a coincidence is that? ------------------- http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/stor...694&p=9xz974xx Investigators in Egypt were today trying to discover the cause of a plane crash in which 141 people are feared to have died near the resort where the British Prime Minister Tony Blair is on holiday. The Boeing 737 disappeared from radar screens shortly after take-off from the popular Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik at 5am local time (3am Irish time). The crash comes after a week of terrorist threat alerts that led to increased security and cancellations including three British Airways flights due to leave Heathrow. But Egypt’s Ministry of Civil Aviation appeared to dismiss terrorism as a cause of today’s crash, describing the disaster as an “accident”. Mr Blair, his wife Cherie, her mother Gale, the Blairs’ four children Euan, Nicky, Kathryn and Leo, and Euan’s girlfriend Katie Sanders are all understood to have been staying in the resort over the festive period. Today a Downing Street spokesman stressed that they were safe and well: “The group has not been affected.” It was reported locally that Mr Blair was due to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the resort later today. The Egyptian-run Flash Airlines plane bound for Cairo was thought to be carrying 135 passengers – 127 of which were French – and six crew. The aircraft crashed into the sea seven miles south of the resort with no reported survivors. It is understood that the wreckage of the plane has been located close to the coast and rescue efforts are under way. |
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