"I'll tell you what, we'll have a beer when this is all done, " Fitch told Haynes, according to the flight recorder transcript.

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Gingrich told friends it is unlikely he will return at all when Congress reconvenes in January, but he is not ruling out that possibility.

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"His only regret is that he didn't take all the necessary measures when Piquet told him he was going to crash his car into a wall, " Dumas added.

BBC: Flavio Briatore