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The Last Word on Flight 990?(EgyptAir Flight 990 crash investigation)(Brief Article)
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is expected to release its final report on the 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 later this year. As currently drafted, the report concludes that control inputs by the plane's reserve copilot, Gamil al-Batouti, probably caused the Boeing 767 aircraft to begin its fatal dive on Oct. 31, 1999. That's a diplomatic way of saying what the investigators really think: that a suicidal Batouti deliberately put the plane into its descent. EgyptAir and the Egyptian government emphatically reject this explanation.
Why are U.S. investigators so sure it was pilot suicide? NEWSWEEK has learned that U.S. intelligence secretly monitored communications between Cairo and an Egyptian investigating team in Washington. Intelligence sources say the intercepts reveal that the Egyptian investigators privately agreed with their U.S. counterparts that suicide was the likely cause of the crash.
Another reason: U.S. investigators have access to secret interviews with a witness who offered a motive for Batouti's despair. The witness is a former EgyptAir pilot, Hamdi Hanafi Taha, who sought political asylum in Britain in February 2000. U.S. sources say Taha told FBI agents that he heard secondhand reports about a meeting between Batouti and senior EgyptAir pilots in New York a day or two before the crash. According to Taha, the senior ...
- EgyptAir Flight 990 Investigation Likely to Find Against Relief Pilot's Actions.
- Newspaper article from: Air Safety Week September 18, 2000 700+ words
...scenarios surrounding the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, a reasonable interpretation...actions of relief pilot Gamil el Batouti. Investigators are careful...intent. They do not know why Batouti acted the way he did, but...a terrorist act, in which Batouti was the agent of destruction...
- A wing, a prayer, a puzzler.(investigation into crash of EgyptAir Flight...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Morris, Jim Ragavan, Chitra Whitelaw, Kevin Glasser, Jeff Strobel, Warren P. Eltahawy, Mona November 29, 1999 700+ words
...into the bizarre crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, affirming the U.S...that a copilot, Gamil al-Batouti, recited a brief Muslim prayer...remained unconvinced that al-Batouti's utterance of the phrase...mandatory retirement. Al-Batouti, 59, delivered his prayer...
- Walking the cat back.(investigation of EgyptAir Flight 990 crash)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Glasser, Jeff Ragavan, Chitra December 6, 1999 700+ words
...More than three weeks after EgyptAir Flight 990 plunged into the ocean...that a copilot, Gamil al-Batouti, intentionally sent the plane...to Cairo to look into al-Batouti's state of mind. In New...people at the hotel where al-Batouti stayed during layovers. So...
- Nextel Provides Wireless Service for EgyptAir Flight 990 Search & Recovery Team.
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 3, 1999 700+ words
...December 3, 1999-- During a crisis, such as the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash, speed is of the essence, and immediate and...committed to help assist with the search and recovery mission of EgyptAir Flight 990 by providing telecommunications equipment, however...
- Palm Computing Issues Statement on EgyptAir Flight 990 Disaster.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 1, 1999 700+ words
...along with several family members and friends, were aboard EgyptAir Flight 990 on route to Cairo, Egypt, when the plane went down...The loss of Kurt Schwenk and all the others on board EgyptAir Flight 990 is a shocking and terrible tragedy that affects so many...
- Working together to find the truth about EgyptAir Flight...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 3, 1999 700+ words
...involved in a shameful coverup of the real cause of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash. The facts are entirely different. First, Egyptian...become closer. Together we will strive for the truth on EgyptAir Flight 990. Together we will face the challenges of the new millennium...
- Muddy Waters.(EgyptAir Flight 990 investigation)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International February 28, 2000 700+ words
Egyptian officials have never accepted the U.S. investigators' theory that the reserve copilot of EgyptAir Flight 990 deliberately plunged the jetliner into the Atlantic Ocean last fall. NEWSWEEK has learned that the Egyptians have hired some...
- Clues from the deep.(EgyptAir Flight 990 crash investigation)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Lavelle, Marianne November 22, 1999 700+ words
The first clues that surfaced from the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean where EgyptAir Flight 990 fell on Halloween only raised more questions about the cause of the Boeing 767 crash that killed all 217 people aboard. Systems...