IVORY COAST: DIVERS SEARCH OF BLACK BOX VOICE RECORDER FROM KENYA AIRBUS CRASH AS RELATIVES IDENTIFY VICTIMS
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183123
IVORY COAST: DIVERS SEARCH OF BLACK BOX VOICE RECORDER FROM KENYA AIRBUS CRASH AS RELATIVES IDENTIFY VICTIMS
- Title: IVORY COAST: DIVERS SEARCH OF BLACK BOX VOICE RECORDER FROM KENYA AIRBUS CRASH AS RELATIVES IDENTIFY VICTIMS
- Date: 3rd February 2000
- Summary: AT SEA, OFF ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST (FEBRUARY 3, 2000) (REUTERS) AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING 1. GV/SLV: DIVERS AND CRASH INVESTIGATORS ABOARD BOATS AROUND CRASH SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SLV: DIVERS USING ECHO-LOCATION EQUIPMENT TO IDENTIFY AIRCRAFT 0.24 3. GV: DIVERS AND INVESTIGATORS ABOARD BOATS AT SUNSET 0.28 ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST (FEBRUARY 3, 2000) (REUTERS) 4. EXT: MORGUE 0.35 5. CU: MORGUE SIGN 0.39 6. WIDE: RELATIVES OUTSIDE MORGUE 0.43 7. CU: RELATIVE HOLDING NEWSPAPER GIVING DETAILS OF CRASH 0.47 8. SCU: DISTRESSED WOMAN 0.55 9. WIDE: MAN COLLAPSING, HELPED BY FRIENDS (2 SHOTS) 1.08 10. SV: PEOPLE ENTERING MORGUE 1.22 11. SLV: CHRIS NJUGUNA, WHO LOST HIS BROTHER JOHN MUGO IN CRASH, TALKING TO OFFICIALS 1.26 12. CU: PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN MUGO 1.29 13. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) CHRIS NJUGUNA "It's slow going. I know yesterday I said I thought I'd see him somewhere but it's slowly sinking in as time goes on. I don't see him being in a bush somewhere or being held in a hospital outside the vicinity or for that mater maybe in a coma so, the longer it takes, the less I cope and all I'm doing is relaying home and telling them the body's not found yet." 1.52 14. SV: RELATIVES OUTSIDE MORGUE (5 SHOTS) 2.22 15. SLV/SV/BV: DISTRESSED WOMAN HELPED FROM MORGUE BY FRIENDS (3 SHOTS) 2.46 16. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) U.N. TRAUMA COUNCILLOR, DAVID TREDREA "Again, the real problem is just one: the flow of information in terms of identifying bodies. Of course these people have come out here and they want some action and they want to be able to go home and be able to bury the body appropriately." 2.59 17. SV: MAN WALKING OUT OF MORGUE WITH FACE COVERED BY HANDKERCHIEF 3.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 18th February 2000 12:00
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- Location: ABIDJAN AND AT SEA, IVORY COAST
- Country: Ivory Coast
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- Story Text: A multinational team of divers are trying to find the
"black box" flight recorders from a Kenya Airways jet that
plunged into the sea on Sunday killing 169 people.
Meanwhile, relatives have expressed frustration and anger
at the delay in identifying the victims, and say that the city
mortuaries appeared overwhelmed by the number of bodies.
Kenya Airways announced that 86 of the 169 dead
have been recovered, of which 26 had been identified.Ten
people survived the crash.
Some of the relatives collapsed upon seeing the victims,
all of whom were subjected to autopsies prior to repatriation.
Others left the mortuaries clutching handkerchiefs to their
noses.
"Inhuman and unsympathetic" was how one distraught woman
described advice that she would have to wait up to 48 hours to
complete formalities to reclaim a relative's body for
repatriation after identification.
The relatives, some of whom arrived within 24 hours of
Sunday's crash, were unimpressed by news that divers had
located the Airbus 310's "black box" flight data recorders
around 1,800 metres (one mile) off shore, near where the plane
went down.
At the crash site itself, teams of divers from Kenya,
members of the Ivorian fire brigade and rescue service and
French civilians from a local diving club, helped crash
investigators to search the scene.
Investigators hope the recordings will help them find out
what caused the Airbus 310 to plunge into the ocean minutes
after take-off.Officials said there had been no distress
signal from the aircraft before it crashed.
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