Posted on 01/04/2004 11:31:20 PM PST by Bobby777
CAIRO, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- A French submarine robot will dive into the Red Sea on Monday to search for the "black box" flight recorders of a Boeing 737 that crashed on Saturday, leaving all 148 people on board dead.
The robot will reach 1,000 meters under water, a depth inaccessible by human divers, reports here said on Monday.
The "black box" data and voice recorders are expected to help explain what happened to the plane that plunged, shortly after take-off, into the deep waters near the Egyptian Red Sea resort Sharm el-Sheikh.
Besides the robot, French divers and salvage experts would alsohelp retrieve bodies and the wreckage of the plane. All 148 people,including 135 passengers, most of them French tourists, and 13 crew members, were killed in the incident.
Egyptian-French rescue efforts have been in full swing to recover bodies of victims and wreckage of the ill-fated aircraft. France also dispatched a warship to Egypt.
The French government would not comment on what caused the crash, saying conclusions on what happened to the plane should not be drawn before the black boxes were found.
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I thought the French were allergic to water, or is it just soap?
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