Posted on 05/22/2016 3:20:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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EgyptAir flight MS804: Pilot spoke with air traffic control 'for several minutes before crash'
On the link I posted, he did say this:
ITS NOT SAFE TO FLY ANYMORE
As we stated yesterday. It is simply not safe to fly anymore. Who could vet all these? I flew nearly 3000 flights for years and I decided to suspend flying altogether after years of experience. Smuggling a soda pop as a bomb (thats very easy to make too) is a breeze. No one can trust the growing number of Muslims working in the airline industry. Lists of employees and workers are suspect and should be an eye-opener to traveling these days.
This article is likely BS.
See the link for the whole story.
Something like “The cabin is filling up with smoke so I’m going to fix it by letting all the air out.”
Pretty sure that descending 20,000 feet in two minutes is not SOP for clearing smoke.
These codes came up in the space of 3 minutes. These are the only codes? Wasn’t long.
Supposed last communication from pilot.
But just as with the Malaysian plane, this isn't how communications end, at least not here in the US. As soon as one signs off with one controller, an immediate attempt is made to contact the next controller in line. But this appears not to have occurred with this plane or the Malaysian plane.
ML/NJ
M6 quotes some French aviation official that the pilot was in contact with Cairo and relays concern of smoke in parts of the plane.
Other officials contradict that and claim there was no distress call from the plane.
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Another thread showed up yesterday that indicated the pilot was basically saying good-bye to friends and family before the flight.
If this appears to be a pilot-suicide-murders situation, would M6 use a made-up story of plane distress/smoke to deflect?
M6 says the pilot-Cairo conversation lasted several minutes. Cairo air traffic control denies it.
Then, there was the claim of airplane parts, luggage, etc., hours after the flight disappeared. That later was said to be incorrect. The next day, a oil slick, luggage, etc., was discovered in another area. Those where claimed to be from this aircraft.
Early reports said the pilot did talk with Greek air control, but never talked to Egypt air control after the ‘hand off’ when the plane entered Egyptian airspace.
When was that?
Just horrible.
I remember one Freeper writing about her husband, who was a captain for a major airline, not leaving the cockpit during his trip because his first officer was a very vocal muslim who hated America.
October 31, 1999. Doesn’t say in the article, but the copilot was going to be fired when he got to Cairo, and he knew it. Not really religiously motivated, just a dirtbag taking out his unhappiness on his employer and their customers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
Apparently those were the only ones, yes.
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