In the sky and when that impact rumbled across the sea. I had a clear. Sense line of sight above the haze bang into a beautifully clear with sky there was no. Explosion in the sky there was no rocket streaking there was no plane coming down in flames and if there had been i would have seen it. Because i was looking right out i mean. Astutely aware of my surroundings when im at sea. It didnt happen. Until rebel is a pilot with more than 52 Years Experience and then a rose by sea engineer we asked him where the flight 990 might have been hit by a missile. I believe me thats a missile did not hit the sack croft if we look at all the elements of the evidence that we weve received. Evidence from witnesses did not see any missiles in the air that night which was a very clear night before raid all stations that had the at craft on their screen saw no missiles being fired at that aircraft as we discussed earlier the debris field was fairly isolated and only found 400. 00 metres apart which would not have been the case of course if im a solid hit the aircraft at 33000 feet. Because of the 10 hour flight time 2 crews were required. Copilot jamail alba treaty was one of the members of the relief crew he would feature heavily in the n. T. S. B. Investigation 20 minutes after takeoff he took over from audio on one copilot of the active crew. Only 2 days after finding the cockpit voice recorder leaks from the n. T. S. B. Theyd made out leads to accuse each time a loud batouti of crashing the plane. I deeply regret. That some advantage benefit sources have led the news media to speculate on undocumented information protect way from one of the most sensitive investigative tools at our disposal oh my goodness. There were leaks on every investigation i had any responsibility for oversee. Team usa or for 27 others i had people sign confidentiality agreements and if there was a not leak then the media would take someones information and make it appear there was all that this is a. Back up pilot egyptian committed suicide and mass murder and end of discussion just open and shut case and that troubled me had to make a whole lot of sense so as far as we could tell comes from a very well established i have my back in egypt had military officer and an unblemished record one of her senior pilots about ready to retire all sorts of reasons to stay alive why would he commit suicide and kill over 200 people. I pulled 19th 2118 months after the crash the n. T. S. B. Issued its draft report finding that the probable cause of the accident was a result of the relief 1st offices Flight Control inputs i thought the n. T. S. B. Report was flawed in a number of areas. They kind of jumped on the conclusion that the handling pilot was mishandling the aircraft. With the finger pointed at suicide however i think they neglected to look at the other relevant evidence that was found not only from the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder but also. Parts of the elevator control system. In sausalito nori was one of 2 translators hired by the n. T. S. B. To translate the cockpit voice recordings. In a photo of the year and to have in motion with a better chance to california to eat. That seal and can often im smiling on that as a health when i shop. So back to the atlanta how can most of that they can one have had enough that i think you have to be fucking fia. Achievement a cockpit voice recorder that with those units south of here but she is out of the out of im up and get are you going back to get them fight that i had forgotten. Above all else really seems to have condemned the 1st officer was his use of a common arabic phrase to a cult to which the n. T. Is to be translated as i rely on god more properly it is i put my trust in god this phrase was interpreted as the final prayer of a man intent on suicide and mass murder his motivation. At 149361 the night of the crash the flight data recorder shows a Rapid Movement of the right elevator the autopilot disengaged is followed by the copilot 2nd use of the i rely on god fries the throttle leave is a move from the cruise power setting to idle fighters move between 3 and 4 degrees nose down the plane begins to die in 12 seconds albatros he repeats the same phrase 9 times the captain returning from the toilet asks whats happening. Now but to the repeats the i rely on god fries and a mosque to call in and wash and sell. A list of what he needs the name of the music of today. Well how many. Then of him could do you know a number that is a little to hard of getting thick ice as a kid than i lean a lot of folks. But jim hall remembers the initial response by egyptian personnel was somewhat different it was a general from egypt that came in the 1st general take over and was the Investigative Team and this was the last time i was to see him. Reported to me that it appeared that. There was a problem with their policy that had caused the invest problem the accident. That person was a vice marshal mom do as he has not spoken publicly on this issue since the crash we were eventually able to contact him on a very bad phone line from a tip. Or 3 our march well what. Was called by jet in the hole he said that when you listen to the cockpit voice recording you had to say it looks like weve got a problem with that. Is that correct. You dont remember her work or her. Car or your gold once he reported back to cairo which he said he had. And. His that individual and the team. The majority of them returned to cairo and were replaced by another Investigative Team. That a rod and at that point in time. We had the official line from egypt that it had to be the problem with the aircraft were you recalled because of those comments. Oh youre photographing the art you have are. Very are trying. Very very here very hard work well for your you can write a right you want a lot of your military posts. Here are not. Careful in your minded do you think but to be deliberately crashed the plane. Crew of course not. Let me put another scenario to you got a very busy n. T. S. B. You know t. W. I. 800 lots of other investigations it kind of feels like by they heard this phrase and they thought all thats easy pilot suicide thats totally wrong. And insult to bind us together as. We choose to wait we were asked to take this investigation to begin with we did it. And a good job was done by the investigators the n. T. S. B. Has a worldwide reputation. For factual investigations and where we have problems with staff. In terms of workload we just extend the time for the investigation. We tried to tying the cop but voice recordings from the n. T. S. B. But they are legally able to release to the f. B. I. Also refuse to release recordings referring asked back to the n. T. S. B. But finally after 3 years of searching and long after all interviews for this film or completed we have time to copy of the cockpit voice recorders. Flight 990. 00 took off from j. F. K. At 121. 00 and climb to normal. At. 3 you start on the flight it 3 you know. About 20 minutes after takeoff the relief 1st officer. Comes forward and says he doesnt want to slate and suggest that he release the active 1st officer i doubt. That ill. Be. Any. Event there. Was. A lot of 27 minutes after takeoff the captain goes to the toilet 12 seconds later we hear an unintelligible frights followed by what was translated as i rely on a. Pet dog and as an aviation safety expert with 42 Years Experience he teaches a crash investigation. We also asked him to look at the n. T. S. B. Report. What about the use of that oft repeated frights. Yeah its important is it very important not really i mean if your in danger your lifes in danger and your threatened youre going to say whatever you want to say and youre going to say rapidly in this case she rapidly less than a 2nd between each one of them statements of making that statement i mean this guys scared or something going on that he doesnt know he doesnt understand hes not trained you talk capable of handling this got him scared i mean id be saying something to. None of the egyptians involved in the 990. 00 investigation would agreed to be interviewed without the permission of the government this wasnt given. At the time however the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority or e. C. I who by now were doing their own investigation issued a furious or a bottle of the n. T. S. B. Report on. The n. T. S. B. You selected facts and speculative conclusions to support a predetermined theory and particularly the n. T. S. B. Conclusion that the proper book caus of the accident is that deliberate action of the 1st officer is not supported by any evidence of intent or motive it is inconceivable that the n. T. S. B. Can credibly proffer a probable cause based on pilot action when it admits the existence of unexplained damage to the critical of the theater component offered to president mubarak through ambassador the ambassador here. Listen to the cockpit voice recorder yourself. As an aviator so you can set and listen to it in your own environment. And so. You know we want i wanted. To. Edge every investigation. To be sure that we were doing the very best job we could the cockpit voice recording last for a total of 31 minutes 45 seconds. Per head of whatever mio but melanie. What the if you have a should have a man wants to crash a plane so every was trying to clear the cockpit he was pretty lucky that the captain wanted to go to the toilet in exactly the right time if he wanted to play the cup why didnt they lock the door why didnt he push the elevators all the why ford why did he retired the frontals when you would push the throttles all the way for ignoring taken since none of that makes common sense you know again the report speaks for itself im glad to participate in the interview. Because i have Great Respect for aljazeera and your viewing audience. In regard to the report. It is there and available. On the n. T. S. B. Website for any wondering. And to the work of other federal agencies cast doubt on the reports conclusions. 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On the 31st of october 1999 egypt air flight 990 disappeared from ride and crashed into the atlantic about 111 kilometers of the east coast of the u. S. With over 200 casualties. The investigation into the crash was conducted by the National Transportation safety board n. T. S. B. In washington d. C. But we were concerned that it hadnt and havent the true cause of the accident when the federal Aviation Administration required a change in the design of boeings him 67 in 2014 we decided to revisit the case. Because american citizens died in the crash and there was the possibility of a criminal act if beyond stopped were among the 1st on the same in fact once the n. T. S. B. Had heard the cockpit voice recordings it wanted the f. B. I. To take over the investigation the f. B. I. Refused i repeated request for an interview referring us to their website and the history of the Boston Office it can be found a very brief mention of the f. B. I. 990 investigation. The f. B. I. Concluded that the tragedy was neither a criminal know a terrorist. Incident. This funding was not published until 2010 about 10 years after the crash yet the n. T. S. B. Did not attract its report or reconsider its conclusions. It was clear. In whatever language there was a struggle going on in the cockpit of the 76. 00 but how was there a struggle what all we had was a captain come back and say whats happening whats happening and if you read the. Rest of this struck script that has been the text recording. It well youll see it. In flight 990 s last moments the captain returned to the flight deck and gave frantic instructions to his karpov. That it was. That. He did. Theres no evidence according to the that the the data that was issued by the n. T. S. B. To indicate that it was a struggle in the cockpit so if im going to if im going to kill everybody and myself included i would have locked the cockpit kept anybody from forcibly prevent me from doing what i want to do been hes not somethings going on that scared this guy and in the end hes still hes got to go react and he freezes he doesnt know what to do and then the captain comes back and try to help him and you see him function as a team to try to recover the fly the airplane. Disconnecting the old i pod was another reason that suspicion kind to rest on gemma but today. A year after the crash the Egyptian Government asked the n. T. S. B. To interview captain jamal out and he had flown on the same boring same 67 from Newark Airport to los angeles the day before the crash. Captain aaron told investigators that the autopilot was hunt. For the glides like during the approach to l. A. X. And that because he was uncomfortable with the autopilots performance he had disconnected it and landed the plane. But i think happened what my team thought happened what we put forth. Is that albert tutti. Who is monitoring this on autopilot felt something or heard something that wasnt quite right. Here power many many hours experience hes trained and the 1st thing you do and suddenly youre going on youre not quite sure what it is youre the shutter so if you disconnect at all you want to you know you want to get a feel whats going on whats lets follow here and we think that instead you just you know that all of the leverage on the back was more than he hold down straight up now we also know that this same problem has occurred on a number of other operators of that same type of American Airlines entered into Charles De Gaulle they had a similar problem with pitching of the and stabilizer problems and elevator problems. And 2 or twice with their own mexico in the same airplane. One of the main concerns the egyptians had with the n. T. S. B. Investigation was with what became known as the im intelligent fries 27 minutes after takeoff the captain says hes going to the toilet theres a conversation between him and al but before the flight big door closes. 12 seconds later another voice is heard saying words which the investigation describes as and im intelligible fries. Mark in that amount of. Family you had for the emotional family not the sweet messam at the hydraulic when essam at the control it was in my back to me that the malignants outfit the sweetmeats the moulmein midsomer are all been hey if they need the ability then scrape one has some at the hydraulic well as hossam. Had that consult the 2nd and no back to the mat and had that is a consult mostly i go oh i shot a statement but i know quite had shots in most of the sort of the n. T. S. B. Report says the 5 arabic speaking members of the Analysis Group concur that they do not recognize this as an arabic word words or phrase the entire group agrees that 3 syllables are heard and the accent is on the 2nd syllable for arabic speaking Group Members believe that they heard word similar to control that one English Speaking member believes that he heard a word similar to hydraulic before other members believe that the words were unintelligible. Like we. Also found the socalled unintelligible fries difficult because a lot of quality of the chord. We went to sounded you know we used techniques to clean the sound on ad copy that may not have been a viable during the original investigation. That would be indicating something is happening with the aircraft was unexpected and hes trying to assist the copilot and. Noticing what was happening at the time. That would be dynamite i think from my point you know i mean extraordinary important piece of. Why wouldnt why would anybody say either control or hydraulic if there wasnt something wrong with the system they realize now theyre going to big problem. But they never of the never been in town. The plains pet show up and down movement is controlled by its elevators in a 767 the elevators are operated by a system which terminates in a hydraulic jack known as a pallet control act your way to o. P. C. Each elevator has 3 p. C. s so that if one of them james the elevator can still be controlled by the other an important part of the mechanical linkage that transmits the pilots control signals to the p. C. I. Is known as the bellcrank assembly at the time of the crash these were constructed with rivets that were designed to bright boy shia in the event of a p. C. I. Jam this would disconnect the control inputs from the jammed p. C. I. And allow the other 2 p. C. s to continue working of the 6 bellcrank assemblies 5 were recovered from the wreckage of 19 the rivets on no 5 was shown the n. T. S. B. Noted that this might have been caused by the impact of age it did 990 with the c im not going to attempt to. Get into detail engineering discussions with you. Because number one i dont have the time nor do i have the professional experience to get into those discussions. At 150 i am the captain returns and asks what is happening the elevators begin moving slowly downwards away from their original positions pushing the plane down. Engine start late as i move from engine run to cut off the speed brake is deployed the captain says pull pull with me pull with me. And suddenly the recording and. Everything. We know from right after its initial dive the pine actually climbed again reaching at least 24000 feet before it finally dived into the sea at some point the plane will start broke up we know this because the wreckage was found in 2 distinct debris fields 366 metres apart was that Something Else broke they they were over they couldnt keep that leverage to keep thing going they couldnt level it off some writer play in the back there time and they never got there and if you never got there and the aircraft descended and accelerated to a speed just below the speed of sound which was way beyond the design limits of the aircraft and some point about descent both pilots managed to recover the aircraft into a climb but both engines have indicated indicated by the flight data recorder to be shut down. The speed alone would have caused. Aerodynamic forces only a craft weigh about the design limits of the aircraft and resulting in. Being detached from the acro. 7 months into the investigation the if i received a detailed safety recommendation from the egyptians have a library ocean of 30 urging an examination of the procedure for checking elevate a belt cracks and there were the nist directive was issued by the f. A. A. To check the shared rivets or possibility of shared rivets in the bellcrank system in the elevator control system of the back of the airplane. So a directive was put out to the operators around the world and out of 152. 00 that were found defective 52. 00 of those were replaced and consequently boeing actually bought out a completely new system to replace the the bellcrank system at that time. These airworthiness directives were released in november 2000 and ordered that all 767 operators to perform a one time functional check of one shear rivet in all 6 elevator p. C. A. Bellcrank assemblies within 30 days reworking or replacing the bellcrank assembly if needed. Failure of 2 of the 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can result in that single elevator surface but not both surfaces moving to a hard over position independent of the pilot command resulting in a significant pitch upset recoverable by the crew. Failure of all 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can cause an elevator hard over that may result in loss of control ability of the airplane most people remember this case now to see what had happened since we agree with us it was about. The n. T. S. B. Report shows that it relied heavily on dr who supplied by boeing well if you know you