Egyptian rescue teams spot ill-fated charter under water
Egypt-France, Local, 1/6/2004

The Egyptian rescue teams managed to spot the scene of Flash Airlines plane crash in Red Sea in which 148 passengers were killed.

A robotic submarine from the French navy is scouring the waters of the Red Sea, looking for debris and bodies at the site of a weekend charter plane crash.

Most of the passengers were French tourists on their way home from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh.

The plane went down very near an ancient fault line called the Syrian-African rift with depths at the location as deep as 1,000 meters (3,281 feet).

Divers can handle the more shallow depth, but the submarine would be necessary if any of the wreckage fell into the fault.

With the help of the submarine, the divers could reach the bulk of the wreckage that settled at a depth of 800 to 1,000 meters in order to search for the plane's black boxes.

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