joining me now to discuss this is mitch bouwmeester, an aviation attorney who represented several victimlies after the crash of egyptair flight 990. mitch, that flight egyptair 990, would seem analogous to what we're dealing with here. remind us of what the facts were. >> well egyptair 990, michael, we had a relief co-pilot an individual who was not going to be promoted to captain. there were a bunch of personal issues surrounding his conduct in the united states and in egypt, and he took off, was a flight from l.a. they remanled overnight at jfk, then there was a jfk to egypt flight. when they took off somewhere around nantucket, he as a relief pilot went in and took the controls. the captain left the flight cockpit, left. he then took control of the plane, said i put myself in god's hands, whatever will happen will happen and he literally drove plane into the ocean. the captain returned and got into the cockpit and actually said to this relief pilot, pull with me do something, shut the power, help me. he continued to push the plane into the ocean chanting in arabic that i'm in god's ha