CARGO WORKERS PUSH COFFINS OF EGYPTIANS VICTIMS OF THE GULF AIR FLIGTH CRASH ONTO A...

Cargo workers at Bahrain's airport load the coffins of the Egyptian victims of the Gulf Air flight crash into an aircraft August 26, 2000. The bodies of the 63 Egyptians killed in the crash were flown home on the special Gulf Air flight. As rescue teams continued to pull pieces of the plane, luggage and clothing from the shallow water, relatives began claiming the victims' bodies to take them home for burial. Ibrahim Abdullah al-Hammar, Bahrain's Transport Ministry Undersecretary for Civil Aviation, said 130 bodies had been handed over to the families. The flight recorders from the Gulf Air Airbus A320 that crashed off Bahrain will be flown to the United States on Saturday in the hope that light can be shed on the mysterious disaster. JS/