Tuesday, October 31, 2006
This Day in the History of Possible Islamic Terror
On this day in 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990, flying to Cairo from New York, crashed off the coast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts killing all 217 people on board. Some American investigators suspect, based on cockpit recording of a Muslim prayer repeated just before the plane lost altitude and on the fact that the engines appear to have been shut off during the dive, that a relief co-pilot, Gameel Al-Batouti, deliberately put the plane into a suicide dive, causing the crash.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:15 AM 
