Flash Airlines 604 plane crash (Wikipedia)
Paris - This morning, January 3, 2004, 35 people standing in the arrival area of Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris, France. They await the arrival of relatives or family who returned from holiday to Egypt.
Clockwise already showed at 08.00 local time, Flash Airlines Flight 604 carrying 148 people who were supposed to land at that time. Notice board informing, plane delayed aka delays.
Two hours later, came the shocking news that makes their bodies numb, tears rolling out of control: Flash Airlines Boeing 737 crashed in the Red Sea, allegedly due to a mechanical problem.
"They are in a state of shock," said Michel Clerel, personnel handling the victim counseling, as published by the Guardian, Sunday, January 4th, 2004.
"Imagine, they are waiting for a family member who had just returned from vacation, then there was an announcement that calls them all dead," said Clerel, who is also the head of medical services Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Many children in the flight. Some of the passengers was a whole family 'who goes to heaven' together.
Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister at the time, Ahmed Shafeeq announced, the victim consists of 133 France, 1 citizens Japan, 1 citizens Morocco, and 13 Egyptian crew. "Early indications lead to a technical problem," he said at the airport of Sharm el-Sheik.
The last communication with the tower air traffic controller (ATC) is performed when the aircraft is at an altitude of 5,300 feet.
In the image on the radar screen, after take off, the aircraft turned left. That's normal movement.
Terrorists?
The ill-fated plane piloted by Abdullah Khadr, 53-year-old aviator who had 7,500 hours flying experience.
Just before falling into the sea, a passenger had called his nephew through the phone. Fatima Hjiaj, the passenger name, calling Mohammed Hjiaj in Paris. "He said, 'there is something going on with the flight', and then there was a scream stewardess who might be standing nearby, then the connection broke."
Had appeared unexpectedly, terrorist act as the cause of the accident. Moreover, when the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, also being a holiday in the resort area of Sharm el-Sheikh. A party in Yemen is also claimed to be behind it as an act of revenge on France.
However, investigators alleged disregard the cost of terrorism when they find the fuselage relatively united - an indication that the Boeing 737 that crashed into the sea in the intact condition.
Carried out a joint investigation team Ministry Flight Egypt, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) United States, and France flight agency, the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA).
On March 25, 2006, the cause of the accident report was released. There is no single conclusion, there are only 4 possible causes.
One of them, the NTSB and BEA concluded, the pilot experienced spatial disorientation (spatial disorientation) and the co-pilot did not want to skip his senior. However, the Egyptians insisted on technical issues as the cause. Two months after the accident, Flash Airlines went bankrupt.
In addition to the Flash Airlines plane crash 604, a number of important events occurred on January 3.
In 1924, the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was found near Luxor, Egypt. While in 1994, more than 7 million people received citizenship South Africa - something they could not get under the Apartheid policy.
Two years later, on January 3, 1996, the first flip phone Motorola StarTAC go on sale.
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