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November 14, 1999
EgyptAir Recorder Data Inconclusive
Filed at 10:35 p.m. EST
By The Associated Press
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) --Cockpit voice recordings from EgyptAir
Flight 990 show the pilot and co-pilot talking ``like pals''
before something goes wrong and both men desperately try to fix a
problem that soon caused the plane to crash into the Atlantic, a
source close to the investigation said Sunday.
``Something happens. Alarms go off. Both work to try to fix it,''
the source said. ``There is some kind of problem that they're
dealing with. It gets progressively worse. And the tape stops.''
In a statement Sunday night, National Transportation Safety Board
chairman James Hall said no conclusions could be drawn from the
initial review of the tape. The recorder was found to be in good
condition and it provided about 31 1/2 minutes of data, he said.
The tape provides no evidence of an intruder in the cockpit or of
any fighting among the crew, the source said.
It was reviewed by American and Egyptian officials, including
representatives from the FBI.
Hall said a Cockpit Voice Recorder Group, directed by the NTSB
and including representatives from Egypt, the Federal Aviation
Administration, Boeing Aircraft and Pratt & Whitney Engines,
would meet Monday to begin a thorough review of the recorder.
After a two-week search, the recorder was found Saturday night by
a remote-operated robot, and on Sunday it was delivered to
National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington.
The New York-to-Cairo jetliner crashed off Massachusetts'
Nantucket Island on Oct. 31, killing all 217 people aboard.
Preliminary data from the plane's flight data recorder showed
that the Boeing 767's autopilot was switched off and the plane
was put into a dive so steep and fast that passengers would
briefly have felt weightless. And both engines were shut off
before the aircraft climbed briefly out of its dive and then
turned and dropped into the ocean.
Barry Schiff, a former TWA 767 pilot from Los Angeles and
currently an aviation accident investigator, has said the data
shows that some human factor was responsible rather than some
system failure.
The cockpit voice recorder was found amid the plane's debris by
Deep Drone, a remote-controlled robot, a day before bad weather
in the search area threatened to halt the search again.
The recorder, which was bent on one side, was found not far from
where investigators detected the pinging signal from its sonar
locater beacon, which had become detached from the recorder.
The head of the FBI's Boston office, Barry Mawn, said more than
250 FBI agents had conducted several hundred interviews related
to the crash, but that there was no evidence yet that a crime had
been committed.
However, if it becomes apparent that a crime occurred, Mawn said,
the FBI would take over as the lead agency in the crash
investigation.
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