Posted on 01/18/2004 1:45:32 PM PST by Indy Pendance
CAIRO, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A French search team has retrieved the second of two black boxes carried by the plane that crashed into Egypt's Red Sea, killing 134 French tourists.
The al-Jazeera Arabic-language network said said the instrument was found extremely deep in the Red Sea, at a depth of more than a 1.000 meters (3,280 feet).
The recovery of the voice recorder Saturday follows that of the flight recorder. The head of the Egyptian commission investigating the crash of the chartered plane, Shaker Qilada, earlier told United Press International that Egypt would do the analysis of the data.
The manufacturer of the plane, Boeing, has specialists available in Cairo.
A 737-300 Boeing jet, owned by the private Egyptian Flash Airlines with 148 people aboard, including 134 French tourists, crashed into the Red Sea 17 seconds after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport Jan. 3. All those onboard were killed.
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