-Caveat Lector- >From http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991203/ts/crash_egyptair_1.html - Friday December 3 9:10 AM ET EgyptAir Chief: Plane Crash May Be Due to Collision CAIRO (Reuters) - EgyptAir's doomed Flight 990 may have collided with an object causing its nosedive into the Atlantic Ocean, the airline chief has said in published remarks. ``Serious damage to the tail unit, caused, perhaps, by a collision with a solid body, would explain the rapid descent,'' the English-language Al-Ahram Weekly quoted EgyptAir chairman Fahim Rayyan as saying in its Thursday's issue. The Cairo-bound airliner's plunge into the ocean, killing all 217 people on board, on October 31 remains a mystery. The weekly quoted EgyptAir's Chief Pilot Tarek Selim in last week's issue as suggesting that the tail unit was hit by a bomb or a missile. ``There are two possibilities that would cause the tail unit to split off. Either a bomb was attached to the tail or it was hit by a missile,'' Selim told the weekly, before leaving for New York to join investigations into the crash. Rayyan rejected all unsubstantiated assumptions, saying: ''The investigations are continuing and it is unprofessional to rush to judgement without having all the necessary evidence.'' He added that Egyptian and U.S. experts were cooperating to find the causes of the crash, and criticized media reports in the United States that speculated that co-pilot Gameel al-Batouti deliberately sent the plane plunging into the ocean in a suicidal act. ``The Americans respect Egypt's contribution to the investigation and have so far agreed with most of our arguments,'' Rayyan said. He said investigators from EgyptAir and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) would travel to Boeing headquarters in Seattle to re-enact the flight on a 767 cockpit simulator. -- Dan S DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
