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Throw in the loss of last year's starting goalkeeper and another All-Ivy second teamer in senior Anne Browning--who left the squad after last season to concentrate on crew--and the prospects for the 1999 version of the team were none too good...
...motive for what is now suspected of having been the criminal downing of EgyptAir Flight 990. The NTSB Tuesday was set to hand over the investigation of the crash to the FBI, believing that the final cockpit conversations on the Boeing 767's voice-data recorder indicate that a crew member may have been responsible for the flight's demise. Handing the case over to Louis Freeh's men signals that a crime is being investigated, although a criminal investigation could still produce a number of scenarios. "Nothing can be ruled out thus far," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon...
...Monday that even after multiple translations, the final conversation in cockpit of Flight 990 wasn't fully comprehensible to the investigators in Washington. Understanding what passed between the pilot - who'd returned to the cockpit after an unexplained absence to find the plane in a death plunge - and whichever crew member had put the Boeing 767 into its final maneuver requires a nuanced, idiomatic interpretation that would require Egyptian analysis. In the meantime, Mr. Freeh may be wishing that Mulder and Scully were real...
...plunge of 16,000 feet in just 40 seconds before the plane steeply climbed for a mile and a half and then finally plunged into the ocean. That shifted the locus of the investigation - and most conspiratorial conjecture - to the cockpit, and the factors that might have prompted the crew to turn off the engines. But the "black box" tape of the pilot and copilot's last conversation proved disappointing: "Something happens. Alarms go off. Both work to try to fix it," a source told the AP. "There is some kind of problem that they're dealing with. It gets...
...earlier conclusion that the engines had been turned off had prompted wild speculation over possible motives among the crew, or even a hijacking scenario, and federal officials had reportedly been considering turning the investigation over to the FBI. But the voice recording of the final moments in the cockpit apparently gives no hint of any malfeasance, nor does it offer any other explanation for the crisis to which the crew were responding. And that means we may have to reconcile ourselves with the maddening possibility that, once again, we may never know...