EGYPT: STILLS OF CRASH SITE OF EGYPTIAN BOEING 737 WHICH CRASHED INTO THE RED SEA OFF THE RESORT OF SHARM EL-SHEIKH.

Record ID: 383699

  • Title: EGYPT: STILLS OF CRASH SITE OF EGYPTIAN BOEING 737 WHICH CRASHED INTO THE RED SEA OFF THE RESORT OF SHARM EL-SHEIKH.
  • Date: 3rd January 2004
  • Summary: (W3) SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT (JANUARY 3, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV: HELICOPTOR HOVERING OVER THE RED SEA AND SHIPS NEAR THE RESORT OF SHARM EL-SHEIKH AT THE PLANE CRASH SITE. 0.12 2. LV: BOATS IN THE SEA AT CRASH SITE. 0.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: SHARM EL-SHEIKH
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVAB2WC3XAYNGYA5DMPV8HYWNKHK
  • Story Text: An Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner crashed into the Red
    Sea after take-off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh killing all
    141 on board.



    An Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner crashed into the Red
    Sea after take-off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on
    Saturday, killing all 135 passengers and six crew, an
    Aviation Ministry source said.

    The source said 127 of the passengers on the plane,
    bound for Cairo, were French. Egypt's official news agency
    MENA said the plane disappeared shortly after take-off at
    0244 GMT.

    It crashed into the sea seven miles (12 km) south of
    Sharm el-Sheikh, a popular diving and swimming resort at
    the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula, the source said.

    An official of Flash Airlines, the private company that
    owned the plane, gave slightly different figures -- 135
    passengers, all of them French, and an Egyptian crew of 13,
    making a total of 148.

    "All we know right now is that a plane disappeared two
    minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh on its way to
    Cairo. The flight number was 8604," said the official, who
    asked not to be named.

    The agency quoted an official source as saying the
    plane had been located in the Red Sea off Sharm el-Sheikh
    and that efforts were underway to retrieve the victims.

    There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash
    but an official source at the Civil Aviation Ministry said
    the plane appeared to have had an accident.



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