The Norfolk-based destroyer Ramage is responding to the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight off the coast of Lebanon, the Navy's 6th Fleet announced.
The Naples-based fleet is coordinating search-and-rescue efforts for flight ET 409, which crashed early Monday shortly after take-off from Beirut International Airport. It was headed to Ethiopia with 90 people aboard; so far, 34 bodies have been recovered, according to the Associated Press.
The Ramage left Norfolk Jan. 5 on a regularly scheduled deployment to the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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This does not make sense
How many times in the past has a US war ship been sent to look for wreckage and the black box of a foreign owned airline?
This is NOT a rescue opp, this is something far more serious.
Read between the lines. Witnesses said they saw a blinding light when the plane went down after take off. Someone didn't want that plane to land.
Lightning............
Thats the someone.
SEND EM
Send them here, send them there, send them all around and show we care.
Did the ground shake terrible winds or rain? Maybe lots of folks died in a big jet plane.
But have no fear and don’t despair because its America to the rescue just show us where.
When all is fixed and back to normal again they will say “Death To America” then the cycle starts AGAIN!
Looks like we've become not
Looks like we've become not only the policeman of the world...but now we're the rescuer of everyone...does anyone else live on this planet????
Wow
She and her crew made it over there pretty dang fast!
Easy run in that time.
Shoot out hit the gulf stream medium throttle, Gibraltor in 13 days.