Shuttle scientist among the British missing

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Shuttle scientist among the British missing
By Cahal Milmo
Published: 06 September 2005

A British engineer who helped to design a crucial part of the space shuttle has been named among 131 Britons missing after Hurricane Katrina.

Mike Noone, 51, and two of his children have not been seen since a storm surge sent a two-metre wall of water through their home on Lake Pontchartrain, opposite the devastation of New Orleans.

The hunt for British survivors was stepped up after criticism of efforts made by consular officials prompted Tony Blair to apologise to those stranded in the aftermath of the disaster, while insisting diplomats had done everything possible to help.

The Prime Minister denied that UK citizens had been abandoned, despite the fact that the first two British officials entered New Orleans only in the early hours of yesterday, a week after the disaster.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article310556.ece

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