Death in the Sinai
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Just a few days after Condi Rice was in the Sinai for a regional peace meeting about Iraq, a blow to peace on the peninsula:
A plane carrying foreign peacekeepers across the Sinai desert crashed Sunday near a stretch of highway where it had tried to make an emergency landing, killing eight French soldiers and a Canadian, officials said.
Capt. Mohammed Badr, a police officer in Sinai, said the plane went down 50 miles from the nearest major town, el-Nakhl.
It appeared the Canadian-made DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter tried to land on the mountain highway but crashed nearby after clipping a trick, said Normand St. Pierre, a spokesman for the Multinational Force and Observers, an independent force created by Egypt and Israel to monitor their border in the Sinai after a 1979 peace deal.
The crash wiped out more than half of the 15-member French contingent and destroyed the mission's sole fixed-wing aircraft, St. Pierre said. A ''higher than normal'' load of passengers and crew were aboard the aircraft at the time of the crash because it was on a training mission. The truck driver escaped unharmed.
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