Posted on 05/19/2016 1:02:26 PM PDT by KeyLargo
The Latest: Greece: Debris Found in Sea Is Not From a Plane
By The Associated Press
CAIRO — May 19, 2016, 3:01 PM ET
The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which Egyptian officials say crashed early Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete (all times local):
8:55 p.m.
A senior Greek air safety official says the debris found so far in the Mediterranean Sea does not belong to an aircraft.
An EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo, and authorities have been scouring a wide area south of Crete to look for plane debris.
But Athanassios Binis, head of Greece's Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board, told state ERT TV that "an assessment of the finds showed that they do not belong to an aircraft." He says Thursday this has been confirmed by Egyptian authorities.
Greek military officials say a Greek C-130 military transport plane is still participating in the search for debris from the EgyptAir jet, but a frigate initially sent to the area has been recalled. The same officials say all potential debris located so far in the sea has been spotted by Egyptian aircraft.
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Deja vu all over again. Reminds me of MH370.
can’t have the muzzles held responsible..gotta be somebody else
Looks like another cover up
The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 4,920 feet.
Former NTSB Chairman Jim Hall was said today that a recommendation to have all Flight Data Recorders be capable of floating has been rejected by the airlines for years.
Air France tragedy: Time to require black boxes that float? (They exist)
By Pete Spotts June 3, 2009
Unfortunately, the last over-water leg of that flight covers depths of 6000 to 11000 feet.
“Reminds me of MH370.”
Reminds me of Tom Clancy’s book, “Rainbow Six”, where a jet apparently plunges to the sea in the same general area but then once it’s below radar it heads to a new destination.
Egypt says they found the wreckage, now Greece says those life jackets were NOT from the plane(Most likely from those migrant boats the Jihadists come on) so where is the plane, if it blew up in mid air they would have found it by now
Has CNN gone to 24 / 7 coverage of it yet?
What are the next steps to revealing the aircraft’s fate?
Search and rescue teams will be hunting for a crash site. If they find it, the crews will need to recover the aircraft’s two black box flight recorders.
The water in that section of the Mediterranean can be 2,000 metres (6,500ft) deep – meaning Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower could fit into it two and a half times. The equipment involved in the search for MH370 is able to search depths of at least 6,000 metres.
If the EgyptAir A320 is the same as the Germanwings model that crashed last year, it will have two recording components: a cockpit voice recorder, which tapes what the pilots say, and a flight data recorder, which stores some of the 2,500 technical measurements in a modern aircraft.
Both are stored at the back of the aircraft and wrapped in titanium or stainless steel, to best survive a crash. They are able to withstand one hour of 1,100C heat and weight of up to 227kg. The boxes can take years to be found – two years in the case of Air France flight 447, which disappeared in 2009 in the Atlantic.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/19/qa-key-questions-about-egyptair-ms-804
The times that I go to CNN have been for big events such as this.
Much better coverage than FOX for such world-wide events.
Crap, they should have a relatively small search area, but that deep and the tendency of black boxes not working well on these kind of crashes is not good.
Plus, if bombed would just be a sudden cut off from the CVR anyway.
Hmmm
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