in a period during which , among other controversies , he again refused to release his taxes , insulted the family of a war hero , claimed that Russia had not invaded Ukraine – two years after it had , said his daughter should “ find another company ” if sexually harassed and briefly claimed to have seen a nonexistent video of cash shipments to Iran . Republicans have tried to tie Clinton ’s foreign policy to that money , $ 400 m owed to pre - revolutionary Iran for a failed arms deal in the 1970s , describing it as “ ransom ” for hostages who were freed in January , around the time of delivery and sanctions relief for a nuclear arms deal . Clinton began tentative nuclear talks with Iran but the money dispute predated her and was concluded by her successor as secretary of state , John Kerry , who also oversaw the hostage release .
" It just leads us into an area where smoke is a major contributor to the incident , either by destroying the aircraft 's equipment or suffocating the pilots , " he told the AP . Looking for clues to whether terrorists may have brought down the Airbus A320 , investigators have been poring over the passenger list and questioned ground crew members at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris , from which the plane took off . The aircraft had been cruising normally in clear skies on a nighttime flight to Cairo early Thursday when it suddenly lurched left , then right , spun all the way around and plummetedmovement.transportperson.na38,000 feet into the sea , never issuing a distress signal . The first available audio from the doomed flight indicates that all was routine as the pilot checked in with air traffic controllers in Zurich , Switzerland , around midnight , before being handed over to Italian air traffic controllers in Padua ( Padova ) : Pilot - " This is 0 - 7 - 2 - 5 Padova control . ( Unintelligible ) 8 - 0 - 4 .
Late Saturday , a U.S. intelligence source confirmed to CBS News the data recorders , commonly known as black boxes , have been approximately located by their pings and that recovery efforts were underway . There has been no official confirmation , and EgyptAir would n't confirm or deny that the black boxes have been located , Williams reports . Also Saturday , the French air accident investigation agency said smoke was detected in multiple places on the flight moments before it plummetedmovement.transportperson.nainto the Mediterranean , but the cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board remains unclear . Egyptian Military / Handout via Reuters TV Sebastien Barthe , a spokesman for the French agency , told The Associated Press in Paris that the plane 's automatic detection system sent messages indicating smoke a few minutes before the plane disappeared from radar while flying over the east Mediterranean early on Thursday morning .
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The United States later vaulted past Russia to become the world ’s largest natural gas producer . As a result , prices dropped to record lows , and America began to wean itself from coal , along with oil and gas imports , which lessened its dependence on the Middle East . The surging global gas supply also helped shrink Russia ’s economic clout : profits for Russia ’s state - owned gas company , Gazprom , plummetedmovement.transportartifact.fallby more than 60 % between 2008 and 2009 alone . Clinton , who was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009 , believed that shale gas could help rewrite global energy politics . “ This is a moment of profound change , ” she later told a crowd at Georgetown University .
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