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...Payne Stewart's plane finally crashed after flying unpiloted...
...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 the captain tried to climb out of the death plunge. A chilling detail was added by a law enforcement source who told the AP that the man prefaced the religious phrase by saying "I made my decision...
...People here simply don?t buy it," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "That phrase is widely used in a variety of different contexts, and you?d have to know a lot about the individual and his own religious habits before concluding 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...
There may be nothing untoward about a prayer muttered in the cockpit of a plane about to plunge headlong into the ocean. But given the history - amplified, and sometimes simplified, by the media and the movies - of terrorists claiming to be inspired by Islam, it could also signal a 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...
...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 real...