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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
Nation/World
Searchers find black box, give up hope for survivors
The Associated Press
NEWPORT, R.I. - Coast Guard search crews gave up hope yesterday of finding anyone on EgyptAir Flight 900 alive, but they found a large piece of wreckage and detected a signal believed to be from one of the plane's black boxes.
If Navy divers are able to retrieve the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the Atlantic ocean floor off Nantucket, the devices could provide vital clues for investigators who as yet have no explanation for the crash.
The Cairo-bound Boeing 767 was carrying 217 people when it plunged into the Atlantic from 33,000 feet early Sunday, a half-hour after leaving New York's Kennedy Airport. The plane went down without a distress call or any other indication of trouble from the pilots.
None of the debris found so far has any burn marks that might indicate a fire or explosion, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard M. Larrabee at search headquarters in Newport, R.I.
Among the passengers were about 30
Egyptian military officers, mostly pilots who had been training in the United States, said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. Also among the passengers were 106 Americans, including 54 people bound for a two-week trip to Egypt and the Nile.
The Coast Guard, fearing bad weather today, stepped up its search for debris and human remains. Officials also admitted that a new phase of the operation had begun.
"It is in everyone's best interest to no longer expect we will find survivors." Larabee said.
As of midday yesterday, only one body had been recovered, but Larrabea said searchers had begun to see evidence of further human remains. He would not elaborate.
The plane's co-pilot, Adel Anwar, had been on his way back to Egypt to get married on Friday. Eager to help with his wedding preparations, he had swapped shifts and taken a colleague's place in the cockpit that fateful night.
Although the FBI and other intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility of terrorism, authorities said there was no evidence so far of foul play.
Thousands were killed millions are homeless
India still reeling after devastating cyclone
The Associated Press
BALESHWAR, India — Bodies were hanging from trees and floating through towns yesterday when rescuers finally arrived with aid for survivors of one of the most powerful cyclones ever to strike India, where thousands were feared dead.
"This is the worst flooding in 100 years. I would say it is the worst in India's history," said Asim Kumar Vaishnav, chief administrator of Baleshwar, the state capital.
After three days without food, shelter or clean drinking water, villagers in eastern Orissa state looked to the skies when helicopters showed up to drop packets of protein-rich food. Military boats appeared on the horizon in the Bay of Bengal to evacuate those marooned on housetops and hillslots.
With heavy rains abating, officials started to count the dead and search for the missing from the cyclone, which crashed into the coast on Friday with winds of 155 mph after building steam in the bay for five days. Meteorologists classified the storm as a supercylone, one of the strongest in the region this century.
Millions of people were left homeless by the cyclone, which stirred up tidal surges that inundated 87 miles of Orissa's coast. In Bhubaneswar, 200,000 people — nearly one of every six residents — lost their homes. Entire slums were washed away, Press Trust of India said.
United News of India quoted an unidentified official as estimating the death toll at 3,000 to 5,000. But the hardest hit areas remained inaccessible, indicating the death toll could be much higher.
In Geneva, the International Red Cross appealed for $2.65 million for emergency aid to the homeless.
With the weather improving, air.
rail and road links slowly were restored to major cities, but telephone and electric lines remained inoperable. The cyclone destroyed major industrial plants in the city of Cuttack. just north of the state capital.
Food riots erupted in Bhubaneswar, which had no power, drinking water or fresh food. Press Trust reported.
"There is a complete breakdown of law and order. Police are inadequate," said Defense Minister George Fernandes, who visited some of the affected areas.
Human bodies and animal carcasses floated on a huge expanse of water in the port town of Paradwip, 50 miles east of Bhubaneswar, Press Trust of India reported. Almost all the town's mud houses were wiped away and a high voltage transmission tower was a mangled heap of steel. Some 50 miles north of Paradwip, P.L. Panda, a minister in Orissa's state government, saw seven bodies hanging from trees during a survey of his rural district of Bhadrak, said R.P. Behera, an aide.
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