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Plane carrying 141 crashes into sea
From correspondents in Cairo
January 3, 2004

AN Egyptian charter plane with 135 passengers and six crew members on board crashed into the Red Sea today, shortly after take off from the coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Cairo airport officials said.

Most of the passengers were French tourists, they added.

The Egyptian official television said the plane was heading to France.

Pieces of wreckage from the plane, a Boeing 737 belonging to private Egyptian company Flash Air, were found in the sea about 15km south of Sharm el-Sheikh, the airport officials said.

The civil aviation authority said the plane disappeared from the radar screens of Cairo airport at 4.44am local time (1.44pm AEDT), minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh airport.

Agence France-Presse

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8314281%255E2,00.html

[Tall_Texan]

Memo to the Frogs:

Don't travel. What could possibly top the joy of staying home and insulting American and British tourists who come to your country? What could be more fun than sneering at some tourist, smiling and muttering "your mother is a whore" in French to someone who will just grin and assume they've just been greeted warmly?

See what happens when you travel? Ask Napoleon what it did for him. Stay home. You'll live longer.

[GeronL]

south?? I guess it needs more room than 7 miles to turn around?