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With investigators of the mysterious Malaysian jetliner disappearance increasingly focusing in on one of the pilots – who, as London’s Daily Mail reports, is being described as “fanatical” and “obsessive” – and worse, who became “profoundly upset” on the day of the Flight MH370′s fateful disappearance” – it is worth noting there is precedent for a commercial airline pilot “going haywire” and purposely taking a jetliner full of passengers to their deaths.
Less than 15 years ago, in October 1999, one of the worst air disasters in modern history occurred when Egypt Air Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from New York.
It wasn’t until two-and-a-half years later that the National Transportation Safety Board finally reached the conclusion many observers and analysts had claimed immediately after the crash – that the plane’s Egyptian copilot, Gameel El-Batouty, had cut power to the engines and intentionally sent the plane plummeting into the ocean, killing all 217 people aboard.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/when-jetliner-pilots-become-terrorists/#FWJBpjmdz81h7DCO.99