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THE BATTALION
Crash of EygptAir
Flight 990 marks
year anniversary
People gather to remember the 217
victims, dedicate granite memorial
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Rel
atives of the 217 victims of the
crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 gath
ered Tuesday, the first anniversary
of the disaster, to dedicate a
memorial whose rough-hewn
sides symbolize their pain.
The granite memorial stands in
a seaside park in the city where
families went a year ago after the
Boeing 767 plunged into the At
lantic off the Massachusetts island
of Nantucket.
More than 500 relatives, friends
and dignitaries attended the
memorial service, which began
about an hour late as buses brought
people to Brenton Point State Park.
Some mourners held flowers and
some cried as a chill wind whipped
the tent shielding them.
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I hope you can
draw some
strength from
each other and
some comfort in
knowing people
all around the
world share
your grief”
— James Hall
National Transportation Safety
Board chairman
National Transportation Safety
Board Chairman James Hall told
the mourners his agency was still
working diligently to determine
the cause of the crash and he hopes
to release his final report by De
cember. Hall also expressed the
condolences of President Clinton.
“I want you to know that we
have continually thought of you
throughout this investigation,” Hall
said. “I hope you can draw some
strength from each other and some
comfort in knowing people all
around the world share your grief.”
The Rhode Island medical ex
aminer, Dr. Elizabeth Laposata,
told the mourners that 128 of the
victims have been identified from
the 6,000 tissue fragments recov
ered from the ocean.
Five coffins of the unidentified
remains have already been buried
in the Island Cemetery. A sixth
was to be buried Tuesday in a pri
vate service for the families.
In Egypt, independent religious
ceremonies also were held Tues
day to mourn those killed when
the plane went crashed about an
hour after taking off from New
York en route to Cairo.
There has been no final deter
mination of the crash’s cause, but
there has been speculation that co
pilot Gameel El-Batouty deliber
ately crashed the plane. Egyptians
have vehemently rejected that
possibility, instead favoring theo
ries that a missile or mechanical
failure were to blame.
Hall said last week that his
agency has found no sign of me
chanical failure.
The granite monument is
roughly hewn on three of its four
sides, symbolizing the families’
difficult journey since the crash.
An inscription in gold lettering
on a black background read^: “In
loving memory of the 217 family
members and friends lost on
EgyptAir Flight 990.... May God’s
eternal light shine upon them.”
The final phrase, “They are not
gone from us,” is inscribed in
French, Arabic and English.
On the ground before the mon
ument are 217 bricks etched with
the names of those who died.
“There’s nothing beautiful
about it,” said Jack Afonso of
Riverside Stone Co., who created
the monument. "This is to com
memorate the dead.” Beyond the
monument,is a panoramic view of
the ocean, the sound of the waves
lapping against the rocks a few
hundred feet away.
On Wednesday, the NTSB will
allow families to tour the aircraft
wreckage, stored in a hangar at a
former Navy base.
Singapore Air jet crash
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Singa
pore Airlines jumbo jet speeding down
a runway in darkness and rain slammed
into an object before takeoff for Los
Angeles and burst into flames Tuesday,
scattering fiery wreckage across the tar
mac, witnesses said. At least 66 people
were killed and dozens more were in
jured, an airline official said.
It was not immediately clear what
Flight SQ006 hit, but the collision
wreaked havoc on the plane. Video
footage showed the Boeing 747-400
spewing flames and thick black smoke
despite the heavy rain. Afterward,
parts of the blue-and-white fuselage
were badly charred, with a gaping hole
in the roof of the forward section.
Airline spokesman Rick Clements
said in Singapore that 47 U.S. citizens
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and 55 Taiwanese were anfll
passengers.
“It felt like we bumped i#
thing huge,” said DougVi/tom
of New Iberia. La., who um 1 s/M0yNoei
outside the Chang Gung V^%heBat
Hospital, wrapped in a hospital gi j) le j
and smoking a cigarette. “It lookedi| )Unc jj 5
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it just started to fall apart. I rantol
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escape hatch with the stewardess!, pj acc
we couldn’t get it open. Two feet ai
from me, 1 saw flames. | om p L1
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said. “I tried to open the escape t [ ie -
on the top just a slit and sawakm )0Ut p
smoke. The fumes were just k ^ ons m;
ble. But eventually we got it open
We were just all so scared it wasi
ing to blow up.”
Napster gets
industry help
NEW YORK (AP) — In a
deal that could rescue
Napster from legal limbo,
Bertelsmann said Tuesday
it was teaming with the In
ternet music-swapping ser
vice to develop a new mem
bership-based distribution
system that would guaran
tee payments to artists.
The German media giant
will drop its lawsuit against
Napster, make its music
catalog available and gain
the right to buy a stake in
Napster. Bertelsmann will
- News in Brief -
in the meantime loan Nap
ster money to help develop
the subscription service.
Microsoft tries
to find hacker
SEATTLE (AP) — Mi
crosoft security experts
tried and failed to catch the
hacker in a more than
weeklong game of elec
tronic cat and mouse
through the computer soft
ware giant’s vast system,
company officials disclosed
Monday.
“We are continuing to
work closely with law en
forcement,” said company
spokesman Rick Miller. 1
yond that, we really ca'
say much more.”
Company officials
lieve the hacker had
cess for about 12 days,t|
only to the source code
blueprint, for a single pr
uct that is still in thee*
stages of development
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