Word: riveras
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...plane exploded in mid-air. The remains of the 350,000 ton aircraft are scattered over the ocean floor in heaps 10 to 12 feet high. Divers have described the hazards of exploring the wreckage in the dark as equivalent to diving into an underwater junkyard. TIME's Elaine Rivera reports from East Moriches: "Divers are having serious problems getting to parts of the plane. Every day that goes by brings us less and less information, and threatens to destroy evidence through prolonged exposure to seawater, but the investigators are holding on. They are still determined to find the answers...
...investigators maintained that the victims are still their first priority. One official from the National Transportation Safety Board said families have been shown videotapes from the ocean floor to help them understand the hostility and danger of the environment in which divers are working. Says TIME's Elaine Rivera: "Eventually the families will get over the initial shock of their loss, and anger will begin to set in. Then, they'll want to know who did this. So investigators are put in a difficult situation of balancing both the retrieval of bodies and the parts of the plane that could...
...ends the recording. While divers located two of the plane's engines on the ocean floor today, they have yet to salvage huge chunks of the airplane. "Although the Navy is sending divers to check out the wreckage, their priority is still finding the victims," says TIME's Elaine Rivera, reporting from East Moriches. "No manpower will be expended on a major salvage operation until all of the bodies have been recovered." Two more bodies were recovered today, bringing the total to 140 of the 230 people on the aircraft. "The NTSB and FBI have not yet ruled...
...what the sound was, and said the flight data recorder tape had been contaminated by water and needed further study. Francis said divers on Wednesday found the data and voice recorders, which are carried in the tails of jetliners, almost directly underneath a Navy vessel. TIME's Elaine Rivera reports that the investigators appear upbeat, even though the first analysis of the two black boxes revealed no major clues. "Kallstrom called himself an optimist, and speculated they'll have an idea what cause the crash within one week." While forensic scientists continue to evaluate the information from the tapes...
...thinks he's held on to his old way of thinking, except that now he blames the government and the New World Order. By the early '80s, Ralph was railing against high mortgage rates and unfair foreclosures, and in 1982 he appeared on a 20/20 segment with Geraldo Rivera...