Speaking of gold...
I was just Googling the Flash Air flight and came across this:
http://www.gold-eagle.com/cgi-bin/gn/get/forum.html?date=2004%3A01%3A02%3A23%3A00%3A00 I should warn you some of the language on some of the pages in the forum are rather ummm colorful to say the least. But with that warning about halfway down the page - one of the early postings after the FlashAir flight went down:
Will they rush out and declare this an accident?
(Nietzsche) Jan 03, 03:17
All 148 passengers and crew believe to have died when chartered Egyptian Air Flash airliner crashed in Red Sea Saturday minutes after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh. Plane carrying 129 French passengers, 6 Egyptians and 6-man crew was bound for Paris via Cairo. Plane disappeared from screens without signal from pilot 11 km south of Sharm airport over Sinai. Cause of disaster unknown.
Blair due to meet Mubarak at Sharm el-Sheik where he is in vacation later Saturday