Word: crashing
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...seems that the habit of the American media and government of projecting stereotypes against Arab and Muslim Americans will never end. With the recent crash of the EgyptAir Flight 990, we have once again witnessed just how out-of-hand these implications...
Last week, with no leads on a mechanical cause for the crash of the flight, the case's investigator told the Associated Press that the Egyptian Muslim co-pilot had made a "cryptic reference to Allah" (News, Nov. 17) as the plane was going down. Had it been a Christian American pilot crying "God help me," such a suggestion would never have been made...
Just to list one more event, we can look to the TWA flight 800 crash in 1996. Once again, even before investigators had time to explore mechanical causes for the airplane's crash, experts were already pointing fingers at Arabs and Muslims, and once again, no apology was made when the real reason, a frayed wire, was discovered...
...case of Hayes, who spent the summer before last working for a documentary film company in Buenos Aires, the experience was a crash course in adapting--both for her and her employer...
Once it became a cultural matter, the EgyptAir Flight 990 probe was bound to turn controversial. Egypt, furious at the NTSB's intention to turn the inquiry over to the FBI, is sending experts to review the cockpit voice-recorder tape that prompted U.S. investigators to conclude that the crash was the result of a crime. U.S. officials believe that a relief pilot muttered the phrase "Tawakilt ala Allah" ("I put my faith in God" or "I entrust myself to God") before turning off the auto-pilot, putting the plane into a headlong dive and turning off the engine when...