But since the Xian fringe and Jewish lobby love to blame "those crazy Muslims" for as much as possible, this may not recieve the credence it ought to... Bill. ============================================================= EgyptAir Chief Convinced Elevator Fault Downed Plane http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000817/ts/crash_egypt_dc_6.html By Esmat Salaheddin 8-18-00 CAIRO (Reuters) - EgyptAir Chairman Mohamed Fahim Rayan said on Thursday he was ``99 percent sure'' a technical problem and not a suicidal pilot caused an EgyptAir plane to crash last October, killing all 217 people aboard. ``We are 99 percent sure that there was something (wrong) in the elevator system,'' Rayan told a news conference, citing a Boeing service bulletin earlier this week as evidence. The elevators are movable panels on the horizontal tail surface which direct the aircraft's nose up or down. The plane's manufacturer, Boeing Co, on Tuesday urged all airlines flying the 767 to perform a special inspection to assure the integrity of parts that help move elevators, but said the stepped-up inspection was not connected to the crash probe. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said last week it had been unable to conclude what caused the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which was heading for Cairo from New York on October 31 when it suddenly plunged into the ocean. The NTSB's 1,665-page assessment appeared to dismiss Egyptian theories of technical problems but did mention alleged lewd behavior by the relief co-pilot Gamil al-Batouti. Rayan mocked the allegations as irrelevant, otherwise ``50 percent of men would commit suicide,'' he said. U.S. investigators have left scant doubt they are working on a theory that Batouti deliberately crashed the aircraft. Rayan said the suicide theory did not fit with the plane's controlled descent, mentioned in last week's NTSB report. He said that the switching off of the plane's autopilot just before its fatal descent did not constitute evidence for the theory because it had disengaged itself three times during the plane's earlier flight from Los Angeles to New York. Egyptian, U.S. Officials To Meet Transport Minister Ibrahim Demiri told reporters after a cabinet meeting to discuss the inquiry that Egyptian and American aviation officials would meet later on Thursday to consider further evidence. ``There is a meeting in Washington today between the Egyptian and American sides to discuss some of the issues that the Egyptian side requested,'' Demiri said, adding a ``final picture'' of what happened would be clear by November. ``The Egyptian side has demands which must be seen through, such as radar and air traffic control information... There are mechanical issues about the hydraulic bell cranks and elevators,'' he said. The Egyptian Pilots' Federation said last week it wanted U.S. authorities to release radar images and to question an air traffic controller on duty at the time of the crash, as well as three pilots from Germany, Jordan and Britain, said to have seen missiles while flying in the area where the plane went down. Last week EgyptAir said metallurgical analysis of wreckage showed that the rivets on two of the three bell cranks in the right elevator were sheared in a direction that would force the elevator down. The rivets on the other bell crank were sheared in the opposite direction, a pattern EgyptAir said was consistent with the possible failure or jam of power control units that would cause the aircraft to pitch down. Mechanical links called bell cranks are connected to hydraulic controls that move elevators on the tail-piece. 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