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To: zipper

Compare him with Muslim pilots. On whose side is God?


5 posted on 05/07/2005 6:18:50 PM PDT by ReadyNow
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To: ReadyNow
Yeah, really-- your remark reminds me of that Egypt Air pilot that decided to commit suicide by driving his 767 into the ocean, back in Nov '99:

"Tawakilt ala allah" means, literally, "I put my trust in God." The fact that Gamil al-Batouty said these words shortly after he took over the controls of EgyptAir Flight 990 is meaningless, most Islamic experts argued last week. Many Muslims utter the oath routinely, before driving the car pool or starting to cook dinner. But, NEWSWEEK has learned, Batouty did not say "Tawakilt ala Allah" just once. According to knowledgeable sources, he repeated the oath as many as 14 times, urgently and prayerfully as, investigators believe, he sent the Boeing 767 into a fatal nose-dive.

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/11/22/73531

and this:

Batouty, 59, was alone at the controls when the Boeing 767's autopilot was switched off and, a few seconds later, the jet was pushed into a steep dive. The captain of the jet apparently returned to the cockpit a short time later. At about that time, somebody attempted to pull the jet out of its dive, but both engines were then shut down, and the jet fell out of the sky. All 217 people aboard the flight on Oct. 31 from New York to Cairo died.

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/11/91647

7 posted on 05/07/2005 6:28:36 PM PDT by zipper ("The fear of God makes heroes, the fear of man makes cowards."-- Sgt Alvin C. York)
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