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				 The Truth about Egypt Air by Walid El Batouty 
 On October 31(super******: st) 1999, Egypt Air, Flight 990 bound for Cairo 'mysteriously' plunged into the Atlantic  Ocean, about 60 miles south of the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts,  killing all 217 people aboard.
 
 The Boeing 767-300ER exploded at 11,000 feet  after 40 minutes of its take-off from Kennedy International Airport in  New York.
 
 Controversy surrounds the crash to this day, but here is an  interesting "series" of events or
 "coincidences", according to crash  investigators:
 
 1. There were 34  generals of different ranks from the Egyptian Armed  Forces on board the plane. Among them  was a general who has a Doctorate in atomic sciences, and more than 20 pilots who successfully completed training in operating Apache helicopters  that had been recently sold to Egypt.
 Also on board were other generals who successfully completed training in launching the famous American Patriot  missiles. The training of all those generals lasted 3  years and cost Egypt $3 billion, which Egypt paid in full.
 
 2.  Israel had vehemently denounced the training program of those generals upon their arrival in the US 3  years before, calling the training program "a threat to Israel's  security".
 
 3. Israel started a  campaign accusing Egypt of seeking to modernize its armed forces, and of possessing  missiles that threaten the security of Israel, especially so because the army  generals who came to train in the US would be exposed to the secrets of the joint American-Israeli missiles and jet  fighters technology.
 
 4.  Egyptian defense minister, Muhammd Hassan Tantawi, announced the previous October that war with Israel  was not ruled out. He also announced that Egypt therefore is ontinuously building its armed  forces to be in a state of readiness.
 
 5. One day before the tragedy, the American  authorities provided hotel accommodation in a 3-star hotel for the airplane crew, which constitutes a violation of the simplest norms of  international aviation, where the crew is accommodated in the airport hotel or in a  5-star
 hotel.
 
 6. On the same day,  a crew of pilots and flight attendants of Israel's airline (El Al) checked in the same  hotel with a general form the Israeli Intelligence (Mossad) who was in charge of the
 crew's  luggage and personal belongings.
 
 7. Just a few hours prior to the  incident, one of the Egypt Air flight crew complained to the hotel security that someone had  sneaked into his room, because he noticed signs of an  attempt to open his suitcase by breaking the locks. But the hotel  security assured him of
 no foul play as long as nothing was missing.
 
 8. The day of the incident, Edward McLoughlin, an  American Jew, w! ho is a vice president of an American civil  agency was one of the passengers of Egypt flight form Los Angeles to New York City in  route to Cairo.
 But when the plane landed in New York City,  Mcglauglen refused to continue his  journey to his  final destination (Cairo) for fear of possible "planting of a bomb" by "one of the passengers" at its first stop (New York City).
 
 9. On the day of the incident, the  American authorities opted to take the flight crew's luggage from the hotel through the  halls to the plane itself.
 Meanwhile the Mossad general opted to take the luggage  of the crew of  El Al flight  to the Israeli plane himself. But the luggage of the crews of both Egypt Air and El Al ended up being taken from the hotel to the airport in the same car that took the Mossad  general to the Israeli plane.
 
 10. Prior to the Egypt Air flight departure, the American authorities inspected the plane  for 3 hours,! which is a very unusually long time in aviation norms. Also it has been  reported that airport security had not given similar attention to any other plane that  day.
 
 11. 40 minutes  after the flight's departure, contact with the plane was lost over the Edward American naval  base, which is known to have anti-aircraft missiles, some of which are ready to be launched automatically by  the mere sensing of an  object passing over at a certain
 elevation.
 
 12. After the incident,3 eye witnesses  testified to the investigators that they saw the plane on fire as it was falling down. Fox News  also has confirmed in its own investigation of  the incident that the plane had exploded in mid air before its fall according to what  was seen on the radar  screens.
 
 13. The American  investigation team reported that the plane fell from 33,000 feet to 19,000 feet in 40  seconds, which, according to aviation experts, "is a speed equa! l to a free fall due to  earth gravity, which makes it evident that the plane has fallen down  in pieces and not
 as one body. Because the body of  the plane is designed in a way that makes it impossible
 for the body of the plane to descend at a  speed in access of 7,000 feet per second".
 Aviation experts also add that "even if the engines of  the plane stopped working, it  would still have been possible to land the plane at the nearest airport".
 
 14. 10 hours after the incident, a member of the  American investigation team announced that they had found the  "black box" that records the secrets of the events  in the "last moments" just before the plane's fall. However, the next day, the American  official spokesman denied finding the "box" and said that the investigation team was still searching  for it!
 
				__________________{أَفَمَنْ يَمْشِي مُكِبًّا عَلَى وَجْهِهِ أَهْدَى أَمَّنْ يَمْشِي سَوِيًّا عَلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ} [الملك/22]
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