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A Look at the Search Effort
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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter is loaded at the USCG Air Station Cape Cod in Sandwich, Mass., before taking off to search for missing EgyptAir Flight 990 on Sunday.
(AP)
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The Associated Press
Sunday, October 31, 1999; 1:38 p.m. EDT
Ships and aircraft sent Sunday to search the waters off Nantucket island where EgyptAir Flight 990 disappeared:
HU-25 Falcon airplane from Cape Cod, Mass.
270-foot Coast Guard cutter Spencer, with search helicopter, from Boston.
225-foot Coast Guard cutter Juniper from Newport, R.I.
210-foot Coast Guard cutter Reliance, with search helicopter, from Portsmouth, N.H.
110-foot Coast Guard cutters Monomoy from Woods Hole, Mass., and Bainbridge Island from Sandy Hook, N.J.
87-foot Coast Guard cutter Hammerhead from Woods Hole.
C-130 Hercules long-range search airplane from Elizabeth City, N.C.
HH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Atlantic City, N.J.
HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Cape Cod.
Navy P-3 Orion long-range reconnaissance plane, from Brunswick, Me.
The Grapple, Navy search and rescue vessel from Little Creek, Va.
© 1999 The Associated Press
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