"Le Target Squiche-Squiche"
Sad day for the French.
But, you know, when you hang out
with terrorist types,
people will wonder
if bad luck is bad luck, or
sinister doings...
First pieces of recovered bodies, of the Italians take part in research
January 3, 15h40
The first pieces of body of the 148 people, killed in the crash of an Egyptian plane Saturday at sea Red, were recovered, and of the Italian high-speed motorboats take part in the searches in broad of Charm el-Sheik. "We found pieces of body of certain passengers", affirmed the Egyptian Minister for the Civil aviation Ahmed Chafik with Egyptian television, adding that "remains of the apparatus were also found".
"the apparatus broke down technical, just after its takeoff, and which involved a loss of control. It was damaged at sea in the south of the airport of Charm el-Sheik (is)", said Mr. Chafik who went in the seaside resort after the crash.
The plane had not taken much altitude on its takeoff of Charm el-Sheik, "what made very difficult for the pilot to save it and to lead it to good port", has it says, while specifying that "the aircraft was perfectly ready to fly and had been subjected to necessary controls". The head of the Egyptian diplomacy Ahmed Maher indicated that the crash was absolutely not "not due to a terrorist act".
"research continues to find the block box of the apparatus, to be able to slice in a final way the causes" of the crash, indicated a person in charge for the Civil aviation. The Boeing 737, pertaining to the private Egyptian company Airlines Flash, went to Paris via Cairo. It had disappeared from the radarscopes before the paddle, a few minutes after its takeoff of the airport of Charm el-Sheik.
It transported 135 French tourists and 13 Egyptian members of crew, according to Flash Airlines and of the Egyptian airport sources. According to sources' of the ministry for the Civil aviation, "after checking of the lists of passengers, 133 French tourists, a Morrocan woman and a Japanese woman were on board, as well as the thirteen Egyptians members of the crews the main thing and alternative".
But the French ministry of the Foreign Affairs gave a report on 127 French among the 135 passengers. High-speed motorboats of the Egyptian coastguards brought back towards bank of the luggage and of the remains of the apparatus, with the AFP the director of a hotel with Charm el-Sheik declared, which required anonymity.
He indicated to have seen "two parts of luggage and the white remains of approximately a meter, perhaps the doors of the apparatus, on board one high-speed motorboat to bay of Naama", where tens of hotels and centers of diving are located.
Military planes and helicopters as well as ships of the naval forces and other boats lead research to more than one kilometer off the coast, it affirmed.
"There was much movement (early the morning). People wanted to know what occurred, but maintaining that calmed itself ", according to him.
Small pieces of the hull of the apparatus were fished out by the first-aid workers, according to images diffused by Egyptian television.
Black rubber a slipper, small pieces of luggage, a bag with hand in fabric empties and of papers of color floated on water, according to these images.
Italian warships, at sea Red, take part in research, declared with the AFP the consul of Italy to Cairo, Federica Favi. "the commander of the Italian quota of the FMO takes part in local research since 05H00 (03H00 GMT)". The multinational Forces and of observers (FMO), stationed in the Sinai under the terms of the agreements of peace égypto-Israelis, have three warships, it indicated, without being able to say if all were implied in research.