EQYPTAIR CRASH
EXPERTS probing the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which went down off the US Atlantic coast on October 31, have reached no conclusion about the cause of the tragedy. “No hypothesis for the cause of this accident has been accepted,” Jim Hall, Chairman of the National Transportation Safe Board said in a statement, adding more work needed to be done to reach a conclusive answer. Jane’s, the British firm specialized in defense issues, has claimed that NTSB investigators are inclined to conclude that the crash resulted from a “deliberate act” — either a suicide by the pilot or a terrorist act. But, Hall said: “The story was wrong”. The Cairo-bound Boeing 767 belonging to EgyptAir crashed half-an- hour after takeoff from New York, and it’s “black boxes” recovered from the ocean floor have revealed no evidence of a technical problem or an explosion, according to US aviation safety experts.