Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Cronan, Averell arrived at the airport 45 minutes before the departure of his 6:15 p.m. flight from Boston home to Philadelphia...
Delta officials counter that Averell was in fact late for his flight...
...passions inflamed as the investigation by the two nations to uncover the cause of Flight 990's catastrophic end already threatened to turn the tragic air crash into a damaging collision between the U.S. and its best Arab ally in the Middle East. All crash investigations are extremely difficult, especially when most of the material evidence lies beneath 270 ft. of restless ocean. But this case has run smack into taut Middle East sensitivities. Egyptians and Muslims everywhere deeply resent the apparent assumption that any Islamic prayer automatically betokens an act of terror. So far, they charge, there...
...According to the voice recording, a relief pilot identified as Gamil el-Batouti, who normally formed part of the "cruise crew" that spells the pilot and co-pilot during the long, dull hours of an ocean crossing, asked to begin his shift early, barely half an hour into the flight. The captain, 57-year-old veteran pilot Ahmed el-Habashi, agreed to let the highly experienced el-Batouti, 59, replace co-pilot Adel Anwar, 36, in the right-hand seat. The door heard to open indicated el-Habashi had gone out, leaving el-Batouti alone at the controls. The reference...
...disorder. "He's a guy who wouldn't hurt a fly," says Los Angeles resident Helal el-Sherif, a friend of el-Batouti's, echoing other friends and family. "He certainly wouldn't take 216 passengers to their deaths." Over dinner at the Sherifs two nights before his final flight, Batouti had discussed the crash that took the life of golfer Payne Stewart. "He was shaking his head at how unbelievable it was," says Juliet el-Sherif...