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. A student aware of my surroundings when im at sea. It didnt happen. Until rebel 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 raid all stations but had 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 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 a sham a loud patootie 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 over say tina usa or for 27 others i had people sign confidentiality agreements and if there was an only. Then the media would take someones information and make it appear there was a lick this is a. Back a pilot egyptian commits 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 to have me back in egypt had military officer 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 jumps on the conclusion that the handling pilot was mishandling the aircraft. With the 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. There 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 you. Cant show a sheet that. Im smiling. When i did. So back to the atlanta hog in motion that they are going to have had enough that i think you have to be fucking. Achievement a cockpit voice recorder that with those units ritchie is out of the out that im a open youre going back to get them fight that i had forgotten. Above all else really seems to have condemned the 1st officer was his use of a common arabic phrase 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 lever is a move from the cruise power settings to the elevators move between 3 and 4 degrees nose down the plane begins to die in 12 seconds alva truth he repeats the same phrase 9 times the captain returning from the toilet whats happening. Alba to be repeats the i rely on god fries and a mosque a corner or should sound. The occult a look at their limited elf what. A list of what he needs so tell us the name of the mission of couldnt talk a little while and get them then if a little sob like him could see the lives of some of you know and others it is a little bit harder that he picked us as a kid than eileen went out of course. But jim whole 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 the accident. That person was the 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 egypt. For free or march well while i was told by jim the whole he said that when you listen to the cockpit voice recorder you had to look like weve got a problem with that. Is that correct. You dont remember her work or however. Or your girl once she 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. And at that point in time. We had the official line from egypt that it had to be the problem with the aircraft were you recalled because of those comments. Or a photograph of the art you have are. Very high. Very very here very hard work well for your you get a right you were in the line of your military both. Here very. Careful in your minded do you think but to be deliberately crashed the plane. Through of course no. Let me put another scenario to you or got a very busy n. T. S. B. You know t. W. I. 800 lots of other investigations it kind of feels like they heard this phrase and they thought all thats easy pilot suicide lets 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 cup 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 the recordings referring us back to the n. T. S. B. But finally after 3 years of searching and long after all interviews for this film were completed we have time to copy of the cockpit voice recorders. Flight 990. 00 took off from j. F. K. At 121. 00 and climb to normal. Operation where you start on the flight a bit through 3 you know. About 20 minutes after takeoff the relief the 1st officer. Comes forward and says he doesnt want to slate and suggest that he relieves the active 1st officer i doubt. He will but i doubt you. And i know. That any. Event there oh yeah. Lets. Go with this 1. 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 god oh. Oh. Pat duggins is 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 your 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 are 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 guy im scared i mean id be saying something to. None of the egyptians involved in the 90 investigation would agree 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 for a bottle of the n. T. S. B. Report. 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 was 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 to the ambassador here. Listen to the cockpit voice recorder yourself. As an aviator so you can sit 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 not for a total of 31 minutes 45 seconds. Per head of whatever mio but now im having 11. And 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 why ford why did he retired the for offals when you would push the thought it was all the way forward ignoring pickles and none of that makes common sense you know again the report speaks for itself and 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. 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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 havent 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 the 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. It was clear. In whatever language there was a struggle going on in the cockpit of the 767 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 car. 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 but 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 him and 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 tourist unjam out 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 same bearing 767 from Newark Airport to los angeles the day before the crash. Captain aaron told investigators that the autopilot it was hunting for the glide slide during the approach to ally x. 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 thought happened 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. It powered many many hours experience hes trained and the 1st thing you do and suddenly youre going on youre not quite sure what it is youre the shutters up if you disconnect at all you want to you know you want to get a feel whats going on whats whats probably here and we think the n. C. 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 entered into a 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 m then tell it to bill fries. 27 minutes after takeoff the captain says hes going to the toilet theres a conversation between him and al but before the flight door closes. 12 seconds later another voice is heard saying words which the investigation describes as and unintelligible fries remark in that amount of hammock and subject to family and yell for the emotional family not the sweet ness America Hydraulic one s m at the quarterly welcome back to me that the malignants outfit the sweet means the moulmein midsomer are all the new hey a new home a needle belittle and scrape one happy and some at the hydraulic will ask us to some. Have that consultant be shock and a new back to the matter and had it is a consult the captain will say or go oh i shot a statement but in a quote had shot in motion. The n. T. S. B. Report says the 5 arabic speaking members of the Analysis Group concur that they do not recognize this as an arabic word words or phrase the entire group agrees that 3 syllables are heard and the accent is on the 2nd syllable for arabic speaking Group Members believe that they heard word similar to control