Crews Find Egypt Plane Crash 'Black Box'

ABC News ^ | 01/06/04 | AP

[FreeAtlanta]

Can they get past their foolish pride and ask for our help? We probably have to offer to accept their surrender before they will let us help them.

[saradippity]

I have always found it amazing that the pilot's last words,repeated over and over, are taken to support the theory that it was an act of terror. It would seem just as likely that when he reognized an irreversible error had occurred,that he uttered something akin to "Oh my God,Oh my God,Oh my God",a plea for help.

When my children were very little,I turned the corner one evening and saw what seemed to be at least 5 emergency vehicles,lights flashing,parked approximately in front of my house.As I drove the quarter mile to my house and ran to the door,I was screaming "Please dear God,please dear God,please dear God".

BTWIt was my house. The baby sitter had put the boys to bed and then called the State Hospital and told the psychiatrist on duty that she was baby sitting and was going to kill her three charges. He kept her talking as he notified the police on another line. Since I lived on the city boundary two cities' sent out their squads. She was still on the phone when they arrived.

[cookcounty]

Any word on who that Benin-to-Beriut crashed plane from last week belonged to?

[PoisedWoman]

Oh my God! And thank God your children survived.

As for the Egyptian pilot, I think there was other evidence that pointed in his direction.

And as for this crash, it surely seems suspicious. I rather doubt that Egyptian airport security glares twice at Muslim passengers, crew members, mechanics, airport personnel even if they are wearing jihadi black masks. .

[xp38]

I don't think the public has ever found out what the final words of the terrorist pilots on 9/11 were but it would be no surprise if it wasn't Allah Akbar.

[xp38]

Sorry for the double negative...it would be no surprise if it was Allah Akbar.

[freeperfromnj]

The silence before the crash was deafening. The pilot didn't even issue a Mayday.

[COEXERJ145]

Somehow I doubt that it is part of cover up that the Frenchies didn't bring the needed equipment to puck the date recorders from the bottom of the ocean. At the time they didn't know how far down either might be. The one I'm interesting in is the CVR or Cockpit Voice Recorder. (Err, guess we should call it the FDVR or Flight Deck Voice Recorder since Cockpit is not PC.)

Anyway, the CVR would tell us what was happening in the cockpit so it would provide a good idea what the problem(s) was with the aircraft. If the pilots said absolutely nothing about a problem, then we know what happened was sudden and not a succession of failures. If that the case, we'll need the the FDR to tell us how the aircraft was operating @ the time of the accident. I think the CVR is more important since it will dispel the conspiracy theory of a terrorist cover up. As of right now, there is not proof either way to declare a cause and anyone who has studied airliner crashes know this and will not make a call this soon without obvious evidence.

I should be surprised by the lack of knowledge about commercial aviation and the amount of tin foil in use on this thread but sadly I'm not.

[PeterPrinciple]

Now you made me curious and head for the big dictionary

cockpit:

1) an opening in the fuselage or hull of an airplane without a pilot's cabin, for the pilot (and observer or navigator)
2) the well at the stern of small yachts and some other small decked boats where the wheel is usually situated
3) the afterpart of the orlop deck in a man-of-war
4) a small arena for cockfights
5) a battle ground (as in Belgium has been called the cockpit of Europe)

[thesummerwind]

just another coverup .......what else is new. Where's Lee Harvey Oswald?

[Imal]

To the best of my knowledge, "Allah Akbar" is not used in that way.