ISIS has claimed responsibility for
bringing down the Russian Airbus A321 over Sinai, though it is fair to say that
at present, not many believe them, with the authorities blaming a technical
fault. What is clear is that 224 passengers and crew have been killed.
Halloween saw another mysterious
air crash in 1999, when an EgyptAir Boeing 767 from New York to Cairo crashed
into the Atlantic about 60 miles off Nantucket Island, killing all 217 people
on board.
America’s National Transportation
Safety Board concluded that the aircraft had been deliberately crashed by the
first officer. The cockpit voice recorder (pictured) revealed that the captain had left
the cockpit to go to the toilet, and that the first officer then began constantly
repeating: ‘I rely on God’, as the autopilot was disconnected, and the engines
shut down, leaving the aircraft plummeting towards the sea.
The Egyptians, though, rejected this
explanation, saying a mechanical fault was the ‘likely cause’.
*Here I am doorstepping Tony Benn,
then the Secretary of State for Industry, as crisis envelopes the British
motorcycle industry in 1974 -
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