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Date Posted: 19:28:59 02/21/02 Thu
Author: MJ
Author Host/IP: wks-166-152-9.kscable.com / 24.166.152.9
Subject: Well Well........

Oh yes did you hear about the lady reporting seeing a missile go after a passenger plane last month and a pilot seeing one a few days ago??? Near some of our airports back east. Read that earlier today. There were missiles found at an airport in France a few days ago too. Now if they'd just look at TWA 800, and a few other crashes as terrorists and not be so closed to it for what ever reason. Things are popping about the OKLA City bombing too. Remember that man who was found in the river drowned -- want to say Colby.....top dog in gov anyway admitted that middle easterners were involved. Oh gee but how could it all be? Wasn't we told it just had to be Nichols and McVeigh? Yet look at the trips to the Philippeans Nichols made and look at Bens boys there. Just things to make you go hummmmm. Ok here is the article
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U.S. Aviation Authority Says Egyptian Crash Deliberate

By Steve Smith, IOL Washington correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 - The 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 off the U.S. Atlantic coast was intentionally perpetrated according to U.S. federal officials and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

News reports here say that NTSB probing the Egyptian Boeing 767, which crashed in October 1999 some 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Nantucket Island, has reiterated statements that the crash was the result of a suicide by the co-pilot.

Egypt and the public opinion in most of the Arab countries have vehemently disputed the report before saying that the crash may have been caused by a mechanical failure. Some went as far as suggesting that a missile hit the plane since dozens of Egyptian military officers were on board back from months-long training in the U.S.

At the time of the crash, co-pilot Gamil Batouty, who according to on-board recording devices, said something close to a prayer before the airliner nearly nose-dived into the ocean, piloted the plane.

Batouty reportedly said "tawakltu ala Allah" in Arabic, which means "I put my trust in God," a regular prayer that millions of Muslims utter routinely everyday.

Except for referring to the prayers, the report, however, did not provide any further evidence to support the claim that the plane was intentionally taken down.

EgyptAir officials have heatedly rejected the claims, saying Batouty was a well-balanced family man and a veteran pilot who could not have committed suicide.

But the sources said the investigators had found no evidence of a mechanical failure of the airplane "that would have caused or contributed to" a dive at the speed of sound that preceded the airplane's collapse.

The Board says it sent a team of as many as 14 different specialties, coordinated by the investigator-in-charge. The team say they looked into areas such as structures, systems, powerplants, human performance, fire and explosion, meteorology, radar data, event recorders, and witness statements, among others.

Under the International Civil Aviation Organization treaty, the investigation of a plane crash in international waters comes under the jurisdiction of the country of registry of the aircraft.

At the request of the Egyptian government, the NTSB has taken the lead in this investigation. The Egyptian press later accused the U.S. body of trying to protect Boeing by not pointing a finger towards a mechanical failure or covering up a mysterious reason behind the crash.

The plane was the 282nd Boeing 767 off the production line, delivered new to EgyptAir September 26, 1989. It was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney 4000 turbofan engines.

The investigation was supported by the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Coast Guard, the Department of Defense, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, EgyptAir, and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engines.

The fall of EgyptAir 990 began with a loud bang. Pilot suicide is the explanation offered by U.S. investigators - an rationalization that cannot account for the failure of the flight data recorders at approximately 16,000 feet, according to Egyptian counter arguments.

They also point to a previous Silk Air crash in which the flight data recorders also stopped operating before the aircraft crashed.

The Egyptian pilots' union was angered by initial suicide reports that it at one time named former U.S. President Bill Clinton in a lawsuit over the FBI investigation.

The action is being taken through the Egyptian courts and accuses investigators of ignoring other possible reasons as to why the New York to Cairo jet crashed.

The case had called on the U.S. president to re-launch the inquiry and look at possibilities including one that a land-to-air missile brought down the aircraft.

All 217 people on board died as a result of the crash. Passengers were from Canada, Egypt, Germany, Sudan, Syria, United States, and Zimbabwe.

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Re: Well Well........ -- Southern Gent, 19:34:19 02/21/02 Thu
- Re: Well Well........ -- MJ, 10:48:38 02/22/02 Fri
  - Re: Well Well........ -- Southern Gent, 20:02:31 02/22/02 Fri
In context.... -- Donk, 19:56:31 02/21/02 Thu