All 148 Aboard Killed in Egypt Jet Crash

It wasn't 9 minutes ago but 5 hours ago. Anyways it's sad
It's the second crash in 2 weeks

Horrible.

My heart goes out to the people whose loved ones died.

A sad and horrifying story from the Red Sea.

All those happy vacationers leaving earth for the last time. At least we can presume they'd had some good times for the holidays... fun in the sun. So awful to think it crashed in front of the airport... surely a lot of people saw it.

In November 2000, there was a Boeing 737 filled with Seattle-area sun worshipers that crashed into water off the California coast. They were coming from Mazatlan, I think. What hell would this be?


In the Alaskaair crash there was something wrong with the tail rudder connection and control was lost. I thought all 737's were refitted to correct that problem after it was discovered.PBS article

You'd think there'd be a couple of survivors... <sigh>

Yeah, the "___ minutes ago" thing often refers to when the latest version was posted on Yahoo, rather than when it happened.

Sad indeed.

That gets my antennae quivering a bit, but is probably just coincidence...?

Very sad.

Actually, the plane crashed at about 0244 GMT (which is some couples of hours earlier than previously suggested).

In a news-conference at 12:00 GMT, the French government said there were 133 French passengers aboard, and a French medical official earlier said many of them were children on family holidays. It said the other two passengers were a Moroccan man and a Japanese woman.
The reason was obviously, as already said hours earlier, not the result of a terrorist act, but is linked to a technical failure of the plane.

In the twelve hours since that conference, there seem to be no other news and known facts.

source: BBC
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