11.   Francantino Granero, the Italian prosecutor investigating the accident, said a U.S. technician had told authorities that a recording device had been removed from the plane.

12.   The fire control technician told investigators he did not maintain a manual plot of sonar contacts because the guests were in the way.

13.   The technician told investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board that he stopped plotting sonar contacts before the accident because he was distracted by civilians in the control room.

14.   The technician told investigators he knew a ship was near but did not report it because the civilians blocked his access to Waddle and Coen.

15.   Tucked into a new law on education standards for day care workers is a requirement that private technicians tell police if they find child pornography when servicing computers.