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Recovery Operation Continues in Egyptian Plane Crash
Aired January 05, 2004 - 06:06 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Recovery teams are still pulling bodies from the Red Sea. A Boeing 737 crashed off the coast of Egypt, killing 148 people. We do have word this morning they may be close to finding vital parts of the plane.
Let's head live to Sharm el-Sheikh and Chris Burns.
Good morning -- Chris. What have they found exactly?
CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, there are conflicting reports this morning -- some rumors running around that they may have found a piece of the plane, though the French government officials here are not confirming that.
But they are saying that they are sending in some heavy-duty military hardware. There is a robot submarine that they are sending over that has a depth range of about 400 meters. That's about 1,200, 1,300 feet. That is what they need to really get down to some of that wreckage -- very, very important.
And especially the most important piece of that wreckage is the black -- are the black box flight recorders, those that give those conversations inside the cockpit, especially interesting and important because there was no conversation between the cockpit and flight control after that plane took off of here from Sharm-El-Sheikh packed with all of those vacationers. There was no conversation, and yet the plane somehow lost control and crashed, going from 5,000 feet crashing into the water in 17 seconds. Imagine the impact of some kind of a collision like that with the water. That has obliterated the plane, and that is making the search very, very difficult over perhaps a four-mile-square area that Egyptian navy ships are searching.
But even the French are now sending in a submarine-hunting frigate that is to be arriving sometime later today that has the sonar capability to help track down those black boxes, and that is the key to trying to find out the reason for this crash -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Chris Burns reporting live from Sharm el-Sheikh this morning.
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Aired January 5, 2004 - 06:06 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Recovery teams are still pulling bodies from the Red Sea. A Boeing 737 crashed off the coast of Egypt, killing 148 people. We do have word this morning they may be close to finding vital parts of the plane.
Let's head live to Sharm el-Sheikh and Chris Burns.
Good morning -- Chris. What have they found exactly?
CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, there are conflicting reports this morning -- some rumors running around that they may have found a piece of the plane, though the French government officials here are not confirming that.
But they are saying that they are sending in some heavy-duty military hardware. There is a robot submarine that they are sending over that has a depth range of about 400 meters. That's about 1,200, 1,300 feet. That is what they need to really get down to some of that wreckage -- very, very important.
And especially the most important piece of that wreckage is the black -- are the black box flight recorders, those that give those conversations inside the cockpit, especially interesting and important because there was no conversation between the cockpit and flight control after that plane took off of here from Sharm-El-Sheikh packed with all of those vacationers. There was no conversation, and yet the plane somehow lost control and crashed, going from 5,000 feet crashing into the water in 17 seconds. Imagine the impact of some kind of a collision like that with the water. That has obliterated the plane, and that is making the search very, very difficult over perhaps a four-mile-square area that Egyptian navy ships are searching.
But even the French are now sending in a submarine-hunting frigate that is to be arriving sometime later today that has the sonar capability to help track down those black boxes, and that is the key to trying to find out the reason for this crash -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Chris Burns reporting live from Sharm el-Sheikh this morning.
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