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The Crash of EgyptAir 990

By William Langewiesche · The Atlantic · November 2001
The Crash of EgyptAir 990
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"Two years afterward the U.S. and Egyptian governments are still quarreling over the cause; a clash that grows out of cultural division, not factual uncertainty. A look at the flight data from a pilot's perspective, with the help of simulations of the accident, points to what the Egyptians must already know: the crash was caused not by any mechanical failure but by a pilot's intentional act"

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