“We will go down and determine what they hit.”The divers will also examine the sites for the three bodies. Late on Sunday, officials admitted for the first time that there was no chance of finding survivors from the accident. They confirmed that what had been a search and rescue mission at the weekend had become a search and recovery operation. They were identified by sonar scanning equipment on board an ocean survey ship, the Rude, about five miles off the western coast of Martha’s Vineyard.”We are the eyes of the side-scan sonar,” William Freddy, leader of the diving teams, said yesterday.

As he approached his destination, however, he turned right over the open ocean. An inky summer haze hanging over the area would have made navigation difficult.
Speculation over the cause of the crash, which killed JFK Jnr, his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren, came as teams of forensic divers investigated two potential debris fields in the Atlantic Ocean. SUSPICION GREW last night that John F Kennedy Jnr may have crashed his small plane into the waters off Martha’s Vineyard because he was disoriented by a dark summer haze that blurred all distinction between sky and ocean. New data obtained from radar sites along his route late on Friday showed his plane travelling for most of the journey along the southern coast of Connecticut, whose lights should have been visible from the cockpit. In the previous two years, recruitment to modern foreign language courses dropped by 8 per cent.Ignorance of past, page 7Chris Woodhead, Review, page 4.

Last year there was a 21 per cent drop in graduates training to be French teachers. He pointed to the falling number of failing schools, success in reducing class sizes for 300,000 children and fewer exclusions from school, all backed by record investment in education.Teacher training applications were up in maths by 37 per cent and in physics by 33 per cent on the Government’s offer of pounds 5,000 golden hellos. The Government recommends parents should read with young children for 10 minutes a day, and 11-year- olds should do 30 minutes’ homework a night.His speech is the first of a series to emphasise the Government’s progress in different policies. They would be appalled if their own child couldn’t count up to 10 at the age of five but think it is far too much for other people’s children.”Mr Blunkett singled out academics from Durham University who questioned the benefits of daily homework for primary children. They think their own children should reach the high standards recommended in the Literacy Framework, but they believe it damages other children’s creativity. But Mr Blunkett said those who called for more creativity wanted a return to the “ill-disciplined, anything goes philosophy that did so much to damage the last generation”.He said well-intentioned liberal parents “believe it’s right to read a bedtime story to their own child, but think homework for other children is damaging.