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Deliberate act by a copilot with a mental problem. 150 people on board died. Pilots have deliberately crashed a plane eight times over the last 40 years. In october of 1999 an egyptian air flight was lost. 217 people on board were killed. Two investigations were launched. The egyptian said mechanical problems caused the crash. But as Bryan Ben Miller reports, american investigators said the copilot deliberately took down that plane. 30 minutes after egypt air flight 990 departed new york it was lying in pieces at the bottom of the atlantic in nantucket. The plane a boeing 767 similar to this one had leveled off at 33,000 feet bound for cairo. When the flight data recorder showed unusual activity in what would be the last two minutes of the flight. The first event we note is the auto pilot disconnecting. About eight seconds later, the airplane appears the airplane begins what appears to be a controlled descend. Reporter someone a ....