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Old 26th Feb 2010, 14:27
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The link that ettore has posted above describes a lawsuit that will be filed against Boeing on Monday and gives a little more insight into the current status. The two statements which ettore has quoted appear to be contradictory, but they may not be. It is possible that "all 90 SOB's have been identified by DNA" and "divers are still working to recover human remains located by Odyssey Explorer" are both true due to the fact that earlier reports indicated that bodies were found dismembered.

Odyssey Explorer remains tied up at Beirut harbor. Also, Ocean Alert, which has been working elsewhere in the Med has recently returned and is tied up there as well. It appears that all debris that they located are in depths that are accessible to divers.

Also there is this report, "Prime Minister Saad Hariri informed ministers that he would brief the families of the victims of the Ethiopian plane crash on the investigative committee’s preliminary report on the incident, Information Minister Tarek Mitri said following the Wednesday meeting of the cabinet. Public Works and Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi proposed for ministers relevant to the investigation to prepare a detailed proposal involving financial rewards to employees who took part in rescue operations of the ill-fated Ethiopian plane.
One month after the deadly Ethiopian plane crash, the Lebanese government still awaits completion of the Technical Committee’s report as Ethiopian Airlines announced it will obtain Thursday the first part of the report that will reveal the truth behind the disaster."
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