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Old 1st Mar 2010, 08:38
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badgerh
 
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The (non government) Ethiopian Sunday paper Capital had a damniing article yesterday. A summary can be found here: Lebanese officials hiding evidence from ET-409 probe

The full article had some claims that the Lebanese know that sabotage took place including a claim that the Lebanese health minister accidentally said durig a press conference "The plane exploded during flight and the cabin, as well as the bodies of those on board, were dispersed in the sea, in diffferent locations".

They make a number of other claims including one that the CVR was "missing the chip that carried the actual data." Lebanese authorities said that "When the chip was said to be retrieved later, some of it was damaged. ... some parts of the chip are damaged and there is no finding out what was said between the pilots and control tower in minutes found in the part now found scraped off".

I cannot imagine what they meant to say but this sounds very far fetched. Lots of other claims - I will try to scan and post the whole article later today and also look in other papers for coroborating information.

Andrew
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