World News 25-08-2000 Black Boxes Found In Airbus Wreckage who: Crash victims Aileen Woods and Christopher Keenan what: Named in roll of dead in Gulf Air wreck where: Bahrain when: Yesterday snippet: "Air crash investigators yesterday recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the Gulf Air Airbus 320 which crashed into the sea near Bahrain, killing all 143 passengers and crew," reports The Telegraph`s Isambard Wilkinson today. "Personal belongings including suitcases, clothes and shoes floated in the shallow water yesterday as rescuers retrieved the last of the bodies," says The Sun`s Helen Studd. "The cause of the crash remained a mystery last night," she continues. "The captain, who had 21 years experience, reported NOTHING wrong with the six-year-old plane". The two Britons who died in Wednesday`s crash have now been identified as Aileen Woods and Christopher Keenan, reports The Times. Ms Woods, a language graduate who worked in Egypt for an engineering company, "had been on her way to Bahrain to spend a few days with her father who lives there," writes Michael Theodoulou. "Mr Keenan, from London, was in his 40s and worked in the United Arab Emirates. He was said to be married". Meanwhile, Egypt is today in a state of mourning, says Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent to The Independent. The nation "has suffered twice in less than a year," he says, "losing almost 200 Egyptians aboard Egyptair flight MS990 over the Atlantic and now 63 - almost half the complement of the 143 passengers and crew on the Airbus". [... more]

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