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To: Central Scrutiniser
More info from a poster on Airliners.net (unknown credibility):

According to the Al-Ahram,An Egyptian news paper, and from the ATC of Sharm AL shake, the aircraft was at 5500 Feet when all the sudden the radar showed that the aircraft started shifting hard to right and left and then dropped 200 feet then started descending to 4000 feet then disappeared. Another interesting thing is the The F/O of the previous flight from Italy to Sharm just before the accident indicated that the aircraft was perfectly fine and working fine with no problems at the long flight from Italy to sharm. The aircraft received a C/d check four month ago. And was leased from ILFC For five years. The victims Included 133 French tourist , one Moracan, one Japanese and 13 crew member in which 6 were on duty and the other 6 were not.,

The 6 off-duty Egyptian crew members scare me the most - it was an off-duty crewman who dove Egypt Air 990 into the sea . . .

375 posted on 01/03/2004 7:18:20 PM PST by LikeLight ( ___________________________________ it's a line)
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To: LikeLight
The 6 off-duty Egyptian crew members scare me the most - it was an off-duty crewman who dove Egypt Air 990 into the sea . .

Well, hello. There was another post saying the airplane was in 6000 feet of water and the black box would be unrecoverable. How convenient. I wonder if that depth will be as reliable as the reports of "heavy fog."

376 posted on 01/03/2004 7:25:24 PM PST by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
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To: LikeLight
Most likely the 6 off duty crew members were the prior crew (Captian and F/O, along with 4 flight attendandants) deadheading back to Cairo. Not too worried about that, if they wanted to hijack the plane it would have been a hell of a lot easier when they were working the flight, dont ya think?
377 posted on 01/03/2004 7:45:17 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (Harry Lime? He is a dirty racketeer!)
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