Egypt sends robot submarine to help plane crash search

Q: Egypt has sent a robot submarine to join the hunt for an EgyptAir plane which crashed last week in some of the deepest waters of the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board. Where is Egypt?

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Q: Debris from the Airbus 320 has been found by ships and planes scouring the sea north of a port and former capital of Egypt. Which of these former Egyptian capitals is on the coast of the Mediterranean?

A. Alexandria

B. Akhetaten

C. Memphis

D. Thebes

Q: The flight was bound for Egypt’s present capital ...

A. Aden

B. Baghdad

C. Cairo

D. Damascus

Q: The submarine will search for the plane’s flight and cockpit voice recorders to find out why the plane crashed. Terrorism was blamed in a crash last fall in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. That plane carried 224 people – mostly tourists returning to the world’s largest nation ...

A. Australia

B. Canada

C. India

D. Russia

Q: The Sinai crash and political upheaval have hurt Egypt’s important tourism industry which employs about 12 percent of the nation’s workers. Most of the nation’s 90 million people live near the ...

A. Mediterranean

B. Nile River

C. Red Sea

D. Suez Canal


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