it wasn't until daybreak when a buddy of mine fishing called me say hey did you hear what happened. and. the rest is history. the n.t.s.b. began the task of interpret ing the data from the kinds recorder and write outranks of its flight path to learn wanted made it so suddenly dive into the ocean. but meanwhile the egyptian public was seized by speculation that the plane had been hit by a missile in order to assassinate 33 returning egyptian army officers who had been training in the us. earlier that night. i had noticed because it was so clear i had noticed air national guard jets running maneuvers and i thought it odd and yet i i had seen that before but i could see them firing their flares and their chief and running circles way high up

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 i'm. a student aware of my surroundings when i'm at sea. it didn't happen. phil 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 . i believe me that's

a missile did not hit the sack croft if we look at all the elements of the evidence that we we've received. evidence from witnesses did not see any missiles in the air that night which was a very clear night before right all stations that had the act 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 in a solid hit the aircraft at 33000 feet. because of the 10 hour flight time 2 crews were required. co-pilot 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. they'd made out leads to accuse each time a loud batouti of crashing the plane. i deeply regret. that some advantage benefit sources have led 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 oversee. t.w. usa or for 27 others i had people sign confidentiality agreements

and if there was not leak then the media would take someone's information and make it appear there was a like this is a. back up pilot egyptian committed 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 from a very well established a heavily 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. i pulled 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 jumped 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. can't show a sheet that. i'm smiling. when i shot. so back to the atlanta hog in motion that they can watch. out i think you will have

a fuck it. achievement a cockpit voice recorder that with those units but she is out of the out that i'm a open you're going back to get them fight that i had for the. 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 leaves

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 what's happening. now but to the repeats the i rely on god fries and a mosque to call in a horse and sell. the occult a look at the message they live in but at the elf what. a list of what he needs so tell us the name of the music of couldn't talk a little while and get them then of a little sob like him could do little son if you know another that is a little the heart of it he'd think i says a good then i mean well not a false. 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 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. to our march well what. was called by jet in the hole he said that when you listen to the cockpit voice recorder you had said it looks like we've got a problem with that. is that correct. you don't remember her work or her 3rd. or your gold once he 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 if you are. very are trying. very very here very hard work well for your you can't write or write you were in the line of your military post. here or. careful in your minded do you think but to be deliberately crashed the plane. crew of course not. let me put another scenario to you or got a very busy n.t.s.b.

you know t.w.a. 800 lots of other investigations it kind of feels like by they heard this phrase and they thought all that's easy pilot suicide that's totally wrong. and insult to bind us to get years. 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 cop 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 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 or completed we have time to copy of the cockpit voice recorder. flight $99.00 he took off from j.f.k. at $121.00 and climbed to normal. at. the flight there but the 3 you know. about 20 minutes after takeoff the relief 1st officer. comes forward and says he doesn't want to slate and suggest that he release the active 1st officer i doubt. that i'll. be. any. event there.

was. 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 a. pet dog and as an aviation safety expert with 42 years experience he teaches it crash investigation. we also asked him to look at the be report. what about the use of that oft repeated frights. yeah it's important is it very important not really i mean if you are in danger your life's in danger and you're threatened you're going to say whatever you want to say and you're going to

say rapidly in this case she rapidly less than a 2nd between each one of them statements of making that statement i mean this guy's scared or something going on that he doesn't know he doesn't understand he's not trained you like capable of handling this got him scared i mean i'd 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 wasn't 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 on. the n.t.s.b. you selected facts and speculative conclusions to support a pre-determined 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 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 the ambassador here. listen to the cockpit voice recorder yourself. as an aviator so you can set and listen to it in your own environment. and so. you know we want i wanted. to. edge every investigation. to be sure that we were doing the very best job we could. the cockpit voice recording lost for

a total of 31 minutes 45 seconds. per head of whatever mio but melanie. what if you have a should have 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 at exactly the right time if he wanted to play the cup why didn't they lock the door why didn't he push the elevators all the why ford why did he retired the throttles when you would push the thought it was all the way forward ignoring taken since none of that makes common sense you know again the report speaks for itself i'm glad to participate in the interview. because i have great respect for al-jazeera and your viewing audience. in regard to the report. it is there and available.

on the n.t.s.b. website for any wondering. and to the work of other federal agencies cast doubt on the report's conclusions. this is a dialogue a meeting about it for a lot less than staying at the international media and on t.v. the pressure to stop this conversation with skepticism because there's a lot of that on my everyone has a voice we are being taken advantage of just because we are small community without any network just huge health join the global conversation announces iraq all they want to do is start the debate the same kind of debate that we have here in st. this is a really fabulous news from one of the best i've ever worked in there is

a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in but something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working round the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. richard problem is something which is a geopolitical issue that's for governments international institutions to manage under one tent refugees don't have the right to move freely on the other and gourds can move freely as far and as much as they want it's multinational colonialism this is a v. another mint over the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one on al-jazeera.

hello i'm devika poland and these are the main stories we're following on. the un security council has failed to agree on how to respond to an attack on a migrant detention center in libya that killed 44 people now earlier the libyan mission said the attack could constitute a war crime the government in tripoli is blaming war north star but his forces say

they're not responsible for the ministry of interior for the government of national accord denounces the horrible crime that's being committed against the detention center for illegal migrants into georgia that took place last night carried out by hell if a half does criminal aircraft this is a definite crime in every respect which is led to a humanitarian tragedy the interior ministry affirms that it will take all legal measures to pursue and catch the war criminals both domestically and internationally now you know. we were surprised to see the false claims that the migrant camp was targeted at the syria houses no migrants and no libyan civilians will moscow if the weapons supply coming from misrata came through this point therefore we destroyed a legitimate target of our enemy. if the claims are true they brought those early. my crews to that area on purpose therefore we're innocent it was a legitimate target and 17 minutes later the migration center was destroyed 17

minutes later. north korea's accusing the us of being hell bent on hostility towards it and being obsessed with sanctions it is a big change from just days ago when donald trump became the 1st sitting u.s. president to visit north korea he met kim jong jong un at the demilitarized zone and they agreed to kickstart denuclearization talks while talks have resumed between sudan's opposition and the ruling military toronto on transferring power to civilian government the opposition had said it would only restart negotiations once certain conditions were met and that includes an investigation into the killing of protesters u.s. president donald trump has warned of retaliation if iran increases uranium enrichment beyond the limits set in the 2050 nuclear deal president hassan rouhani said teran would begin and rich in uranium to any amount at once but he stressed

that any action would be reversible and called on washington to return to the nuclear agreement. you know i'm. on the 31st of up time and 999 egypt air flight 990 disappeared from ride and crashed into the atlantic about 111 kilometers of the east coast of the us 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 hadn't and covered the true cause of the accident when the federal aviation administration required a change in the design of boeing's 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 where among the fed has done 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 a repeated 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.'s 990 investigation. the f.b.i. concluded that the tragedy was neither a criminal know a 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 $76.00 but how was there

a struggle what all we heard was a captain come back and say what's happening what's happening and if you read the. rest of this struck script that has been the text recording. it well you'll see it. in flight 990 s last moments the captain returned to the flight deck and gave frantic instructions to his karpov. that it was. that. he did. there's no evidence according to the that the data that was issued by the n.t.s.b. to indicate that it was a struggle in the cockpit so if i'm going to if i'm 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 been he's not something's going on that scared this guy and in the end he's still he's got to go react and he freezes he doesn't 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 came to rest on gemma 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 was hunting for the glide slide during the approach to ally hicks and that because he was uncomfortable with the

autopilots performance he had disconnected it and landed the plane and. well i thing happened what my team saw happen and what we put forth is that albert tutti. who is monitoring this on autopilot felt something or heard something that wasn't quite right. here power many many hours experience he's trained and the 1st thing you do and suddenly you're going on you're not quite sure what it is you the shutters up if you disconnect at all you want to you know you want to get if you know what's going on what's what's 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 time american airlines entered into 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 i'm intelligent fries 27 minutes after takeoff the captain says he's going to the toilet there's a conversation between him and al but before the flight big door closes. 12 seconds later another voice is heard saying words which the investigation describes as and i'm intelligible fries. mark in the amount of. family you had for the emotional family not the sweet messam at the hydraulic when essam at the control it was in my back to me that the malignant self it'll sweep means the moulmein midsomer are all been hey a play needle belittle and scrape one has some at the hydraulic well as hossam. had

that consult the 2nd and no back to the matter and had that is a consult mostly i go oh i should stay but in a court had shots in motion to sort out 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 that one english speaking member believes that he heard a word similar to hydraulic before other members believe that the words were unintelligible. like being t s b we also found the so-called unintelligible fries difficult because

a lot of quality of the chord. we went to is sound engineer who used techniques to clean the sound on ad copy that may not have been a viable during the original investigation. that would be indicating something is happening with the aircraft was unexpected and he's trying to assist the copilot in. noticing what was happening at the time. that would be dynamite i think from my point you know i mean extraordinary important piece of. why i went why would anybody say either control or hydraulic if there wasn't something wrong with the system they realize now they're going to big problem. but they never of the never been in town. the plains pet show up and down movement is controlled by its elevators in a 767 the elevators are operated by a system which terminates in a hydraulic jack known as a pallet control act your way to o.p.c.

. each elevator has 3 p.c.'s so that if one of them james the elevator can still be controlled by the other an important part of the mechanical linkage that transmits the pilot's control signals to the p.c.i. is known as the bellcrank assembly at the time of the crash these were constructed with rivets that were designed to bright boy shia in the event of a p.c.i. jam this would disconnect the control inputs from the jammed p.c.i. and allow the other 2 p.c.'s to continue working on the 6 bellcrank assemblies 5 were recovered from the wreckage of 19 the rivets on no 5 was shown the n.t.s.b. noted that this might have been caused by the impact of egypt they had 990 with the c. i'm not going to attempt to. get into detail engineering discussions with you. because number one i don't have the time nor do i have the

professional experience to get into those discussions. at 150 i am the captain returns and asks what is happening the elevators begin moving slowly downwards away from their original positions pushing the plane down. engine start late as i move from engine run to cut off the speed break is deployed the captain says pull pull with me pull with me. and suddenly the recording means. everything. we know from right after its initial dive the pine actually climbed again reaching at least 24000 feet before it finally dived into the sea at some point the plane will start broke up we know this because the

wreckage was found in 2 distinct debris fields 366 meters a path was that something else broke they they were over they couldn't keep that leverage to keep thing going they couldn't level it off some writer play in the back there time and they never got there and if you never got there and the aircraft descended and accelerated to a speed just below the speed of sound which was way beyond the design limits of the aircraft. and some point about descent both pilots managed to recover the aircraft into a climb but both engines have indicated indicated by the flight data recorder to be shut down. the speed alone would have caused. aerodynamic forces only a craft weigh about the design limits of the aircraft and resulting in. being

detached from the acro. 7 months into the investigation the if i received a detailed safety recommendation from the egyptians have a library ocean of 30 urging an examination of the procedure for checking elevator belt cracks and they were the newest directive was issued by the f.a.a. to check the shared rivets or possibility of shit rivets in the bellcrank system in the elevator control system of the back of the airplane. so a directive was put out to the operators around the world and out of $152.00 that were found defective $52.00 of those were replaced and consequently boeing actually bought out a completely new system to replace the the bellcrank system at that time. these airworthiness directives were released in november 2000 and ordered that all 767 operators to perform

a one time functional check of one shear rivet in all 6 elevator pca bellcrank assemblies within 30 days reworking or replacing the bellcrank assembly if needed. failure of 2 of the 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can result in that single elevator surface but not both surfaces moving to a hard over position independent of pilot command resulting in a significant pitch upset recoverable by the crew. failure of all 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can cause an elevator hard over that may result in loss of control ability of the airplane most people remember this case now to see what had happened since agree with us it was about. the n.t.s.b. report shows that it relied heavily on data who supplied by boeing well if you know you.