It Really Is a Small World
Like many of you, I was interested with the few details available when the Ethiopian Airline aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean on January 25. Other than the fact that all 90 on board were presumed dead, very little information followed, so I didn’t think about it much more. The accident was, after all, thousands of miles away.
Then, on the following Saturday, we got a telephone call from son Brett, our youngest, and all of a sudden the accident became quite interesting. Brett is a side-scan sonar operator/technician on a recovery vessel and he calls from places like England, Gibraltar, and Nova Scotia. All of his calls are important to us, but this one was even more so.
“By the way,” he asked, “do you know about the Ethiopian aircraft that crashed into the Mediterranean? We’re looking for it.”
Well, I’ll be danged.
Brett was calling from Beirut, Lebanon. The airplane crashed just off the Lebanese coast, and it seems the Lebanese government contacted the company Brett works for soon after the crash. Their ship is now actively searching for the aircraft with the side-scan sonar that Brett (and others) operates. All of a sudden this accident from thousands of miles away became much closer to home—kind of in the family, so to speak.
Oh, I do hope they find it.
I would fill you in on all the details, but I don’t know the details and may never know them—but if I do, you can read about it in a later Blog.
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Thanks for this information. I am looking forward about details.
To: Tony, Nathan, Mitu and Michael–
Thank you so much for your comments—I appreciate you.
I wish that I could provide all of the answers for you immediately. What was written in the Blog is all that I know at this point. I’ll definitely continue to monitor the situation, but my information on this accident is coming very slowly. You should continue to follow your own sources as much as possible,
I would love to know from what area you are writing.
Thanks,
Ralph Hood
they found the higher part of the plane in a deep of 38 meters in our sea (the lebanese) and now they knew in which region is the plane and they r scanning the sea to find the plane and the black box,more over they found one more dead body and they said within 72 hours the plane and the black box should be found
Time is running and they haven’t found the black-box yet. keep us updated if u hear something please. The Lebanese gov’t is blaming the pilot with very little knowledge available that lead to the crash.
all other mainstream media seem to forget abt the incident already and even if they get sth i suspect it may not be that much an issue to them. For the sake of us who really want to know what went wrong pls followup the story and let us know the results I will be cheking ur blog hoping to find sth
OH pls update us as soon as you hear about it……I can wait to hear the cause of the crash.