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(AP) — Egypt Air crash investiga tors recovered a damaged flight data recorder from the depths of the Atlantic yesterday, hoping it would yield clues to what caused the jetliner to plunge into the ocean, killing 217 people nine days ago. The recorder, one of two so-called “black boxes” on the Boeing 767, was damaged at one end, Jim Hall, chair of the Na tional Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said. It was not immedi ately clear how that would affect the data stored in it, he said. The search for the other box, the cockpit voice recorder, continued. “I congratulate all that are in volved in the search,” Hall said. “I am extremely proud of the U.S. Navy.” The data recorder was located at “They’re probably opening it right now.” 5 a.m. and brought aboard the USS Grapple about 40 minutes later. It was transferred to the USS Austin and was flown by helicopter to Washington for analysis by NTSB scientists. “It’s in our lab; they’re probably opening it right now,” Ted Lopatkiewicz, a spokesperson for the NTSB, said this afternoon. After its recovery, the recorder was submerged in water inside a cooler to protect the salt-soaked tape from being damaged when it hits air. T\vo signals from the recorders were picked up late last week. The remote-controlled Deep Drone’ over the area where one of the pings wasi but could not find the orange-encased recordel the signal device had separated from thebox,ifj on the Grapple using a video monitor just haj spot the recorder near the digging area. Hall: Searchers were digging was believed to be the signal] other recorder, but they were, whether that recorder alsol tached, investigators said. The data recorder contains: readings of instruments om vestigators were hopeful thati ued to operate as the aircraft^ ed and that it was not toodai reveal what brought the plane] The around-the-clock missi) ore — Ted Lopatkiewicz NTSB spokesperson cover the recorders had relied on twogiganc water robots — Deep Drone and tougher and nimbler Magnum was brougli! day afternoon to replace Deep Drone, which! in 13 previous hours on the ocean floor. Bl| on the Magnum was damaged by the sharp* broken wreckage overnight, and Deep Dr] brought back into the search, Hall said. Investigators are looking into all possit es, including mechanical failure, humane] sabotage. Cyclone leaves 10 million homeli BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) — The cyclone that struck one of India’s poorest regions nearly two weeks ago is shaping up as one of the worst natural disasters to strike modem In dia. An estimated 10 million people — more than those living in New York City — lost their homes, live stock or livelihood in the storm, Red Cross officials reported yesterday. With the scope of the devasta tion from the storm and subsequent flooding only now becoming clear, the Red Cross predicted the death toll will climb past 10,000, an as tonishing blow to a region where many live at starvation levels even in normal times. Authorities in the eastern state of Orissa said the Oct. 29 cyclone will jolt them from self-acknowl edged complacency into action to better protect their coastal state. “Every year we have either a flood or a cyclone or drought,” state Finance Minister Raghunath Patnaik told the Associated Press, “This year, we have to begin planning a perma nent solution. It is no point provid ing the people temporary relief and leaving them to their fate.” Yesterday, the state govern ment’s official death toll was climb ing toward 4,000, a figure the Red Cross said was much too low. “It is difficult to tally, because where the people have been able to cremate they haven’t necessarily been able to report to government officials,” Julian Francis, a disaster expert for the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said. “It’s obviously hit-and-miss.” An army officer who surveyed 10 villages in the worst-hit area said the toll could be much higher. “We can’t count the dead physi cally,” the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the of ficer, who spoke on condition of anonymity said. “The only way we can do this is to ask the village head India cyclone aftermath uch media cover- |ge justifiably as been give |o crises in osnia, Koso vo, Iraq and ast Timor. lavs and eth ic cleansing o these natio ere caught i But while c ini the Easteri nedia only re Covering the a lace in Soutl heir treatmei een poor. 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