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...Federal Aviation Administration. Apparently, we don't need to worry about air safety so much - we'd be better off concentrating on getting from the runway to baggage check in one piece. There are too many planes and attendant service vehicles on the ground at any given time, the NTSB reports, and that crush of traffic is making it harder for safety crews to keep planes (and service trucks) at a safe distance from one another. In fact, the number of incidents where a plane or ground vehicle wandered onto an active runway was up 27 percent (from...
...article and the media attention were enough to convince the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which was investigating the crash, to consider the possibility of electromagnetic interference. The board has directed the Joint Spectrum Center and the National Aeronatics and Space Administration (NASA) to look into the matter...
...NTSB needs a standing arrangement to examine the external environment immediately after a crash," she says. "I'm not saying that the same thing happened in the two other flights--but that it needs to be investigated."Beautiful People...
...NTSB investigators have detected no evidence of a mechanical malfunction or a weather-related cause for the crash. If there was some mysterious emergency, the response from the cockpit is still baffling. 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...
Egyptian officials and el-Batouti's family scoff that the NTSB fashioned a chain of events before there was sufficient evidence to rule out mechanical failure. They rail against the flood of premature news leaks and unsubstantiated, sensational headlines. They vehemently deny the notion that a regularly vetted pilot with 35 years' flying experience would suddenly commit mass murder. At least three pilots and some of the 33 air force officers were in the first-class cabin, but no one tried to overpower el-Batouti in the cockpit...