Plane Crash - egyptair Flight 990 Crashes Into the Atlantic Download the Full Episode here:http://www .geocities.com/apape le/----Download the Full Episode here: http://www .geocities.com/apape le/ ------------ ---- COPYRIGHT: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Fligh t 990 was a Los Angeles-New York-Cairo flight operated by EgyptAir. On October 31, 1999, at around 1:50 a.m. EST, Flight 990 dove into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. < br/>Radar and radio contact with the Boeing 767-366ER aircraft (Registration number: SU-GAP) was lost 30 minutes after the aircraft departed JFK Airport in New York on its flight to Cairo. The flight departed from its assigned altitude (FL330: 33,000 feet) and dove to 16,000 feet, then climbed again to 24,000 then continued to dive, hitting the Atlantic Ocean within the span of 36 seconds.
Th e flight was carrying 14 crew members (4 flight crewmembers composed of a command and relief flight crew each containing a captain and first officer, plus 10 flight attendants) and 203 passengers from seven countries (Canada, Egypt, Germany, Sudan, Syria, United States, and Zimbabwe). Included in the passenger manifest were high ranking Egyptian military officers.
F light data showed that the flight controls were used to move the elevators in order to initiate and sustain the steep dive. Forces on the captain's and first officer's control columns were recorded and completely consistent with the recorded elevator deflections and a struggle for control of the aircraft. There were no other aircraft in the area. There was no indication that an explosion occurred on board. The engines operated normally for the entire flight until they shut down and the left engine was torn from the wing from the stress of the maneuvers.
An investigation by the NTSB determined that the relief first officer, Gameel Al-Batouti, at the controls while the captain was out of the cockpit, turned off the autopilot, and deliberately crashed the plane into the ocean, while calmly reciting "Tawakalt ala Allah" ("I rely on God") and counteracting the captain's efforts to recover from the dive. His motivation for these actions can only be guessed and is not addressed by the NTSB, but suicide or homicidal intentions towards some of the passengers or crew are possibilities in light of the NTSB analysis.(tamamı)(kısalt)
