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Robot Sub Joins Egyptian Crash Search
2 hours, 56 minutes ago
By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press Writer
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - The French Navy deployed a robot submarine as France and Egypt launched a major push Monday to find the fuselage and flight data recorders of the aircraft that crashed into the Red Sea, killing 148 people.
The parts of bodies recovered from the sea so far bore no burns, suggesting there was no explosion on the Egyptian chartered Boeing 737 that plunged into the sea minutes after takeoff on Saturday, French Deputy Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier said Monday.
The crash came amid world wide fears that terrorists would use an aircraft to stage an atrocity. But Muselier told France-Info radio, "there is no reason to believe there was an attack." He added he thought the crash, which killed 133 French citizens, was an accident.
Egyptian officials say the crash appears to have been caused by a mechanical problem.
Swiss aviation authorities had banned the airline, Flash Airlines, after it failed an inspection at Zurich airport in October 2002. The same month, one of Flash's two Boeings was forced to make an emergency landing in Athens after an engine caught fire.
The chairman of Flash Airlines, Mohamed Nour, told The Associated Press that the company made the necessary improvements and passed a second Swiss inspection — but the Swiss denied this. Nour said the aircraft that suffered the fire was overhauled and subsequently maintained to international standards.
The depth of the Red Sea at the crash site has hampered efforts to retrieve the remains of the aircraft and find the flight data recorders. The sea is believed to be 880 yards deep at that point.
The French began using a frigate, a helicopter, 16 divers and an aircraft equipped with advanced radar and an ultra violet camera to search for the wreckage Monday, said French Embassy spokesman Ahmed Fadil.
The robot submarine, called Achille after the ancient Greek hero, has a video camera and can dive to a maximum of 440 yards, Fadil said.
The Egyptian Navy had six boats in the crash area Monday.
The wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (news - web sites), Suzanne Mubarak, dropped a wreath on to the water at the site Monday.
"It is a big tragedy and I am here to express condolences to all the families of the victims," she told reporters. French relatives of the dead are expected to arrive mid week in this resort near the southern end of the Sinai peninsula.
French, Egyptian and Japanese officials laid wreaths at the site on Sunday.
So far about 60 body parts have been recovered and no entire corpse — an indication of the impact of the plane which suddenly descended from more than 5,000 feet.
Egypt has said the Flash Airlines jet, an 11-year-old Boeing 737, had checked out fine before the flight.