Word: ntsb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak ceded responsibility for the case to the U.S., it could refuse to give the FBI free rein to investigate in Egypt. As Administration diplomats worked overtime to calm tempers and encourage cooperation, NTSB officials retreated. By Friday, chairman James Hall was blaming unauthorized news leaks for "flat wrong" speculation that "caused pain" to victims' families and had "done a disservice" to a long-standing international friendship. But despite the diplomatic delicacy, Hall, the Justice Department and FBI officials remain determined to pursue, on their own if need be, the hypothesis that someone deliberately...
...with their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo to solve the EgyptAir 990 mystery, the Egyptian press Monday took aim at the latest round of leaked revelations concerning the contents of the doomed plane's voice-data recorder. Although the two sides are cooperating closely at the top, press coverage of NTSB leaks - and the Egyptian pooh-poohing of such conjecture - has made life difficult for both Washington and Cairo. "There's a lot at stake here because both sides need to preserve their strategic relationship," says TIME Cairo bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "The Egyptians are very resentful of the stream...
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...
...that he was deliberately taking down the plane. It?s widely believed here that the plane was sabotaged, but not by the crew ? and that shifting the blame onto the relief pilot is part of a cover-up." Egypt has sent its own investigators to review the evidence, prompting NTSB officials to delay handing over the case...
...Part of the problem decoding what happened in the cockpit is cultural. NTSB officials readily conceded late 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...