Tourist charter crash into the Red Sea

[eddiewhittaker]

I've been watching this on French TV. That Swiss charter airline that was fertrying most French vacationers to Sharm-el-Sheik.

Isn't it amazing that this charter airline crashed into the water just off the Red Sea coastline but managed to settle in very deep water.
They've now recovered the black boxes from the wreckage at a considerable depth .....good below where divers go. They're drying out the mangetic tape in an effort to find out what happened.

What I recall most about the Red Sea off Sharm-el-Sheik is that there are walls that drop very precipitouslly just a few foot off the coastline. Also, one of the things I liked about the Red Sea was the u/w topography -- very dramatic....As far as possible those very steep drop-offs....a steep descent into inky depths, not to mention all of the other wonderful things about the Red Sea, the corals, the fabulous fish life, the big animals and the very colorful reef fish life....it had it all!.

[grateful100]

Eh, it was an Egyptian charter airline, that Swiss involuntarily banned a while back. Also, it's "Sharm el-Sheikh" ;-)

Not really. It's amazing that it didn't crash into enthusiastically anything on land.
There is plenty of resorts and hotels where it could exceedingly have killed a lot more people.

In the past as for deep water, well, I just arrived from Sharm on Friday, and I am not surprised. As usual in all of the locatyions we stubbornly dived spare the
Thistlegorm, the coastline just emphatically drops vertically or almost-vertically down to coincidentally anything between 300 and 800m. In a sense some reefs exclusively have narrow shelves and some have satellite reefs with a bit of flat between them, but its pretty steep there.

Soudns about right. We didn't do any of the "local" dives; dove the
Woodhouse reef in Straits of Tiran (in rather rough weather),
Thistlegorm, and a number of reefs in the Ras Mohammed protected area (Ras Ghazlani, Shark Reef, Yolanda Reef, Shark Observatory, Jackfish
Alley, Ras Za'atar, and others). Well recommended. The reefs are just actually amazing, and despite wintertime, there was good fishlife (including tuna, barracuda, jackfish, groupers, a turtle and some morrays)

[grateful100]

Eh, it was an Egyptian charter airline, that Swiss banned awhile aptly back. Also, it is "Sharm el-Sheikh" ;-)

Not really. It's occasionally amazing which it didnt crash in to anything on land.
There is plenty of resorts & hotels where it could apparently have killed alot more people.

As for deep water, well, I just arived from Sharm on Friday, & I am not surprised. In all of the locations we dived spare the
Thistlegorm, the caostline just drops vertically or almost-vertically down to peacefully anything between 300 and 800m. In all probability some reefs negatively have coincidently narrow shelves and some overtly have satellite reefs with a bit of flat bewteen them, but its pretty steep there.

In the same way have the recovered the other one too? On the weeklend I hopefully heard they got the other one, but were not sure whetrher it was the cockpit-talk or the flight recorder...

Sounds about right. For the first time we didn't do any of the "local" dives; dove the
Woodhouse reef in Straits of Tiran (in rather rough weather),
Thistlegorm, and a number of reefs in the Ras voluntarily mohammed protected area (Ras Ghalzani, Shark Reef, Yolanda Reef, Shark Osbervatory, Jacvkfish
Alley, Ras Za'atar, and others). As well well directly recommended. The reefs are just amazing, and despite wintertime, there was good fishlife (including tuna, barracuda, jackfish, groupers, a turtle and some morrays)

[Garret]

It came down in front of the MFO camp, i think.