Ethiopia Airlines jet 'crashes into sea off Beirut'

Lebanon has still not released the preliminary accident report which it is required to do so by ICAO regulations within thirty days of the accident.

http://www.ethiopian-news.com/lebanon-withholds-ethiopian-airlines-plane-crash-report/

The entire salt cellar, if you ask me! 🙂

Have a look around the site, and you’ll see what I mean.

I must say, I’ve never heard of it (Debka) before, so it can probably be read with a pinch of salt.

That’s a very long way from being an objective news source, 27vet.

Ethiopian Airline crash off Beirut was an act of Al-Qaeda terror

Evidence has reached DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources that the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 which crashed after takeoff from Beirut on January 25, killing all 92 aboard, was blown up in mid-air.
This was an al-Qaeda operation timed for one month to the day after its failed attempt to destroy an American Northwest airliner bound for Detroit.
It is becoming clear that either a bomb was planted on the Ethiopian flight with a timer or a passenger acted as suicide bomber…

Disclaimer: not responsible for salt induced hypertension from reading this article.

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The State Prosecutor going to get a detailed report this week.
That’s the news.
“We” (= general public) might get nothing.
If the case is obvious, one or two weeks of analysis are sufficient to determine the nature of the crash (loss of orientation, or whatever), it might not be enough to identify the root cause.

That is pretty fast to produce a full report so soon.

Looks like some answers will be available soon.

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Full report on plane crash due this week
Easy AdSenser by Unreal BEIRUT: State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza is expected during this week to receive a detailed account about the January crash of the Ethiopian Airline plane, a security source told The Daily Star on Monday.

The source added that the report to be delivered to Mirza will include details on the plane’s 90 passengers.

Meanwhile, Lebanese commando divers pursued efforts at retrieving the bodies of the passengers who were aboard the ill-fated Ethiopian airplane. The list of the 90 travelers who are presumed to be dead has shrunk to only three believed to be still missing.

Remains presumed to belong to a number of passengers were recovered Saturday and Sunday after which they were handed over to the Rafik Hariri Universal Hospital for required tests. Medical teams are still unable to figure out whether some remains that they have belong to one of the three still missing or to all three.

As-Safir newspaper said Monday that conducting DNA tests and taking samples of the retrieved remains was getting more difficult with the passage of time. The staff at the Rafik Hariri Universal Hospital and the team of forensic experts have been using additional techniques to identify the remains they are receiving due to the level of decomposition they underwent.

Separately, memorial services were held Monday for a number of the air crash’s victims in the villages of Zibkeen and Abbasiyya in south Lebanon.

The Ethiopian airplane ET 409 crashed off Lebanese territorial waters a few minutes after taking off from Rafik Hariri International Airport on January 25. All travelers aboard the plane are presumed dead. – The Daily Starhttp://www.yebbo.com/blog/?p=1491#more-1491

Good one! :D:D:D

“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
Aaron Levenstein quotes:diablo:

The deepest depth in the Med. is 5267 metres!:eek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea

The average depth is 1500 metres and CNN mentioned yesterday that the boxes would be recovered by ‘divers’.:confused:

Go to Google Earth. Hover the cursor over the crash area. The depth comes up at the bottom of the screen. The sea is not very deep in the crash area. There are other areas in the Med where it is very deep and using 3D calculus the clever guys compute an “average” depth which really says nothing at all, heavens only knows what that figure represents to them. It is there to show that they can achieve incredibly complex calculations which baffle the layman 😀

The second black box has been recovered and the Odyssey Explorer is on site, so the answers should be available, eventually.

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/0/2ADEABBC9765017BC22576CC00399E89?OpenDocument

The main black box has been recovered and is in Paris. It was retrieved presumably by a human diver, so the wreck can not be as deep as previously supposed.

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/newsdesk.nsf/0/852E395DE3F2E87FC22576C400216F67?OpenDocument

The deepest depth in the Med. is 5267 metres!:eek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea

The average depth is 1500 metres and CNN mentioned yesterday that the boxes would be recovered by ‘divers’.:confused:

Nor did I at such a close distance from the shore.

So, the 1300 meters story is nonsense. I looked on Google earth, the max sea depth in the whole region is around 1000 feet.

Crashed jet’s black box found
2010-02-06 21:03

Beirut – Searchers have located the black boxes of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the sea off Lebanon last month killing 90 people, Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi told AFP on Saturday.

“The boxes have been found under the rear part of the fuselage,” which was found on Saturday morning, the minister said.

“Lebanese army divers have gone down to retrieve them, but this operation will take time,” he added.

Earlier in the day, a search vessel, the vessel Ocean Alert found the rear sections of the aircraft’s cabin between 10 and 12 metres long at a depth of 45 metres off Naameh,” 12km south of Beirut.

The Boeing 737-800 went down before dawn on January 25, just minutes after take-off during stormy weather from Beirut airport. It was bound for Addis Ababa with 83 passengers and seven crew on board.

No survivors were found from Flight 409, and only 15 bodies have so far been recovered.

Bodies strapped to seats

Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said he hoped other sections of the plane would soon be found, along with the bodies of the remaining victims, who are believed to be still strapped to their seats.

Of the 15 bodies found, nine were Lebanese, five Ethiopian and one Iraqi. Fifty-four Lebanese were on board the aircraft.

The Lebanese military said on Saturday that “pictures are being taken” of the located section of fuselage with a view to raising it.

Flight recorders are usually placed in the rear of commercial airliners.

Lebanese officials have said the captain was instructed by the control tower to change to a certain heading, but that the aircraft then took a different course.

Experts have told AFP that the stormy weather may not have been the only reason for the crash, and that the aircraft may have had engine or hydraulics problems.

– AFP

Didn’t realize that the Med was so deep.

Nor did I at such a close distance from the shore.

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Didn’t realize that the Med was so deep.

Th salvage team is awaiting the arrival of the Odyssey Explorer together with the ‘submarine’ Zeus 1 in order to retrieve the black boxes which are beyond the depth of human divers.

The ship was in Falmouth on Sunday and should be on site in a few days (as long as it doesn’t get stopped by the Spanish again:D).

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=111362

A “significant bolt” at 2:37am, minutes after takeoff – and this bolt was “in line” with the runway.

http://www.traveldaily.co.uk/AsiaPacificNews/Detail.aspx?Section=17293