[Velveeta]

Looks like freeper hinky meter may have been right about this one! Wonder what the French will have to say?

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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

[Hegemony Cricket]

Thanks for posting this - my hinky meter is pegged, too!

[oceanview]

how was "pilot error" determined?

[freeperfromnj]

Whoa - thanks for that update. Just as we suspected - now the question is -- was the "pilot error" deliberate?

[Oorang]

Had dinner last night with 2 friends who are airline pilots. One retired just a couple of years ago, flew for 30 years; the other still flying and has been for 20 years. I asked them about the 2 black boxes on this flight and what they thought of it in general. They agreed that they are not buying the story of the first box being destroyed. They listed off more than one crash from much higher altitudes and the boxes are not damaged. They also found it highly suspect that so shortly after recovering the second box they have come to any conclusions regarding anything. They said it takes much longer than that. At least that's how in works in America. Maybe Egypt has "special powers" and can figure all this out at a much faster rate :-)

[WestCoastGal]

I'm very surprised that they admitted that!! Makes me even more suspicious about this crash than before. The whole thing from the beginning just doesn't make sense, but then neither did the Egypt Air crash. I certainly wouldn't fly on anything out of Egypt or with one of their pilots. YeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaw on the way down just like John Dean. : )