Egyptian charter jet going down... - no comms at all during the fall...

[Freycinet]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/06/egypt.crash/index.html

I just read that it was going down for 17 seconds, no comms at all. I think the black box really must be found. Maybe it's a copycat suicide pilot, like the one that crashed a jet over the Atlantic, shouting allahu-akhbar all the way down... We really need to know what happened in that cockpit/plane.

[Freycinet]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/06/egypt.crash/index.html

I just read that it was going down for 17 seconds, no comms at all. I think the black box really must be found. Maybe it's a copycat suicide pilot, like the one that crashed a jet over the Atlantic, shouting allahu-akhbar all the way down... We really need to know what happened in that cockpit/plane.

[Menthol_moose]

Very suspicious indeed.

Considering the high alerts with air travel at the moment, the fact that Tony blair was staying very close by at the time and was due to fly out that same day, very suspicious before they had even fished one bit of debris out of the water, the eygptian gov had said "we dont know what happened, but its not terrorism" ??!

Plus the plane had just been serviced in europe.

Egypt depends on tourism deeply, and the french would be shocked that their appeasement of arab states had failed to protect them from terrorism. I dont think we will get a decent answer.

[KillerCharlie]

I read that that airline had been looked into before for a horrible maintenance record, but who knows.

[olaleier]

Similar stuff has happened before. A sudden failure, the pilots caught by surprise, trying to fight the aircraft and never get a chance to declare the emergency.

But yeah, they need to find that box.

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[bad_karma_2one]

If there was a bomb near the cockpit or the main power line then that could explain it, also if something like a power surge from a faulty electrical system occured, then that could be both the cause of the crash and the reason for no radio

[This message was edited by bad_karma_2one on Wed January 07 2004 at 01:26 AM.]

[Freycinet]

Egypt is still in complete denial about their airline pilot who committed suicide with a planeload of passengers on board, so don't expect any truthful comments to come out of that dictatorship.