Vel, it's post 13,086 from the Cindy. :)
Looks like freeper hinky meter may have been right about this one! Wonder what the French will have to say?
Pilot to blame for crash
21/01/2004 16:32 - (SA)
Cairo, Egypt - A preliminary report blames pilot error for the crash of an Egyptian charter airliner that killed all 148 people on board, most of them French tourists, a civil aviation official said on Wednesday.
The assertion is a reversal for the Egyptian government, which had insisted since shortly after the January 3 crash that the plane went down because of a technical problem.
Analysis of the voice recorder recovered from the wreckage of the plane indicated that the pilot gave no alarm to air traffic controllers, said the official of the Egyptian civil aviation ministry, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.....(snipped.....long article, most of it re-hashing what we already know)
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1472574,00.html