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It was soon obvious that there would be no rescue - only a recovery operation.

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Planes, helicopters and boats scoured the area, where the Red Sea is very deep.

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But only pieces of wreckage were picked up - and body parts.

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Distraught relatives of the Egyptian crew rushed to the Cairo offices of Flash Airlines.

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Some of the French relatives had not heard the news and went to welcome their loves ones at Charles de Gaulle airport.

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Visibly shocked, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said the whole of France was in mourning.