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Old 09-05-2008, 10:42
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The Silk Air pilot who suicided by crashing into the ground killing all onboard was disturbing too.

Same as the Egypt Air copilot a few years ago, departing in a B767 from New York, bound for Cairo.

From what could be found (flight data and voice recorders), the copilot dove the airplane into the Atlantic, while the Captain was in the "biffy". (He was heard chanting "Akhmaa Alla", or whatever...most of the way down.)

A lot of unanswered questions, as the Egyptian government "fired" the U.S. NTSB investigators, in an effort to keep the information silent. Having claimed "proprietary position", as the plane was from and registered in Egypt, I guess they'd heard enough. 55555

Very disturbing, indeed.

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