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Flight 990’s ‘black box’ fo
e Battalion
NEWPORT, R.I. (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)
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— 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
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