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 im. A student me aware of my surroundings when im at sea. It didnt happen. Until randell 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 an aside. I believe he lets the missile did not hit the sack rofft if we look at all the elements of the evidence that we received. Evidence from witnesses did not see any missiles in the air that night which was a very clear night before right all stations that have the aircraft 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 some in 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 a lick this is a. Back a 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 a very well established heavily 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 on april 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 a 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 uta had in motion with a better chance to california the heat gets you know a sheet that seal and can often im smiling. When i did. So back to the atlanta hog in motion that they can one have had them kill mackie enough that i think you have to be fucking fia. Achievement a cockpit voice recorder with this unit south of here but she is one of the out that im up and get are you going back to get them fight that i had forgotten. Above all else what 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 altitude 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 a corner or should sound. A little heed. The name of the music of today. Well how many kids. Then of him could see the little you know and then as it is the love of the heart of it he took us as it did then eileen went out of course. 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 to 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 at 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 getting the whole he said that when you listen to the cockpit voice recording you had said it looks like weve got a problem with it. Is that correct. You dont remember her work or her 3rd. Or your girl 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 where you recalled because of those comments. Oh youre photographing the ark you have a. Very high. Very very here very hard work well for you here right right you were in the line you were a military pilot. Here on. Careful in your minded do you think but to be deliberately crashed the plane. Crew of course no. 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 fridays 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 refused 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 climbed to the normal. Way of. Approaching 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 relieves the active 1st officer i doubt. I doubt you. And i know. That 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 you are in danger your lifes in danger and youre 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 youre not 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. Has conclusion that the proper book codes 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 in edge every investigation. To be sure that we were doing the very best job we could to cut but voice recording last for a total of 31 minutes 45 seconds. Per head up but never never had my old one but now im having 11. 11 what the if you have a surprise 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 way forward why did he retired the throttle zz when you would push the thought it was all the way forward ignoring take nickels and 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 freddie wandering. Through the work of other federal agencies casts doubt on the reports conclusions. 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On the 31st of up tight about 9099 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 or n. T. S. B. In washington d. C. But we will consent that it hadnt and covered 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 fairest 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 what 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. But 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 cat come back inside. 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 copilot. That night. 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 even 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 side bearing 767 from Newark Airport to los angeles the day before the crash. Captain aaron told investigators that the autopilot was hunting for the glide slide during the approach to ally hicks and that because he was uncomfortable with the autopilots performance he had disconnected it and landed the plane and. I think happened what my team saw happen and what we put forth. Is that albert to me. Who is monitoring this on autopilot felt something or heard something that wasnt quite right. A powder many many hours experience hes trained and the 1st thing you do and suddenly youre going on youre not quite sure what it is you the shutters up if you disconnect at all you want to you know its you want to get if you know whats going on whats whats probably here and we think that instead he just you know that out 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 American Airlines antic and to 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 bill fries 27 minutes aft