And the Senate of this "House" "Capitol" just had a so-called non-event of Hazardous materials
This guy (Ashraf Hamid) happens to be a recent hire pilot for Flash Airlines, who happens to have trained in the U.S., and was on this doomed Egypt flight....??? It's a looooooong article, but highly interesting.
http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=88CB82FC-FE21-4A71-973E-E31CD5435D23 ....snipped...Ashraf Hamid was a dual Egyptian-Canadian citizen in his early 40s. He had lived with his father in Montreal in his mid-teens and graduated from Riverdale High School in Pierrefonds before going back to Egypt to live with his mother and study to be a pilot.
He was aboard Flash Airlines Flight FSH604 on Saturday - not piloting, but as part of a relief crew - when the 11-year-old Boeing 737 crashed in about 800 metres of water after leaving Sharm el-Shekh airport.
Yesterday, a Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs official visited Hamid's two Canadian-born daughters in Brampton, Ont. to tell them their father died and that they had been named in his will, said the pilot's father...
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