“Something happened” in the tail of the EgyptAir Boeing 767 which crashed into the sea on October 31 shortly after take off from New York, killing all 217 people aboard, the chairman of EgyptAir announced on Monday. “The plane plummeted because of something that happened in its tail,” Mohammed Fahim Rayyan told journalists, but did not say whether it was an accident or an act of sabotage. He said the Egyptian team working with the US investigators “refuted all the allegations made about the plane’s crew.” The US press had cast suspicion on the co-pilot Gamil al-Batoti, alleging that he had crashed the plane to commit suicide. The investigators have parts of the wings, tail, fuselage and one of the two engines.