31.   The absence of a distress call has led investigators to lean away from mechanical failure as a cause for the crash and toward the possibility of a bomb.

32.   The crew was rescued by a Russian freighter that responded to a distress call.

33.   The CHP put out a distress call to tow truck drivers regionwide to help clean up the mess.

34.   The distress call came from Donetsk, the bleak center of coal production in southern Ukraine.

35.   The fire department or the police would be able, instantly, to identify the building, street and home number from which a distress call is coming.

36.   The first rescue vessel reached the area about an hour after the distress call went out.

37.   The investigators also note that the pilots never radioed a distress call.

38.   The new gear also provides for quicker and easier removal of static and background noise that can muffle a distress call.

39.   The pilot also speculated that, because of the lack of a distress call from a member of the flight crew, the action taken likely was deliberate.

40.   The pilots were experienced and ground control received no distress call.