| Tuesday, November 13, 2001, updated at 09:34(GMT+8) |
Mubarak Sends Condolences Over US Plane Crash |
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak late Monday sent a cable of condolences to US President George W.Bush over victims in the crash of an American Airline plane in New York earlier in the day.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak late Monday sent a cable of condolences to US President George W.Bush over victims in the crash of an American Airline plane in New York earlier in the day.
Mubarak condoled in the cable with the US president and American people over the victims of the ill-fated American airlines plane which crashed and killed 255 people on board, the state-run MENA news agency reported.
The Flight 587 crashed in the Queens section of New York shortly after it took off from JFK international airport for the Dominican Republic. The incident came two months after the airborne suicide terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
A source of the EgyptAir said that the national carrier's New York-bound Flight 987 has been cancelled after the US authorities closed New York airports for incoming flights.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher was scheduled to take the cancelled flight to New York to attend the ongoing session of the U.N. General Assembly.
A senior official in Egypt's Civil Aviation Authority declined to make it clear whether the authority had received a notice from the U.S. authorities regarding the closure of New York airports.
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