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Egypt Air is the same airline for which a pilot purposely flew a jef-full of 217 passengers straight into the sea while intoning "Tawkalt ala Allah" ("I rely on Allah").
UPDATED AND BUMPED TO THE TOP FOR NOW
From NBC News:
- Egyptair: Threat Scribbled On Outiside Of Egyptair Plane, Pilot Spoke With Air Traffic Control For Several Minutes Before Crash... Account Directly Contradicts The Official Claim That There Was No Distress Call
NYT: EgyptAir Was Aware of Threats to Security, Including One Scribbled on PlaneThree EgyptAir security officials said the threatening graffiti, which appeared about two years ago, had been the work of aviation workers at Cairo Airport. Playing on the...
- Egyptair Flight Ms804 Has Crashed, (islamic Militants Claim Bomb Brought Down Plane?)
Update 2:30am CST – AP reports that the possibility that the plane has crashed has been confirmed.Update 4:00am CST – French Official believes terrorist event “almost certainly caused by attack”Update 4:20am CST – CNN reports...
- Suspected Drone Hits Plane During Heathrow Landing
From AFP: London (AFP) - A British Airways plane struck an object believed to be a drone on Sunday as it was coming in for landing at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, police said. An investigation has been launched into the incident,...
- Report: Co-pilot Of Germanwing Began Descent
From AFP: Marignane (France) (AFP) - The co-pilot "voluntarily" initiated the descent of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps and refused to open the door to the pilot who was outside the cockpit, the lead investigator said on Thursday. "The...
- U.s. Plane Turned Back To Amsterdam
No details are being released yet, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with terrorism: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Dutch fighter planes accompanied a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday,...
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Egypt Air Pilot Causes Near Collision At JFK Airport - IGNORED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DIRECTIONS - UPDATED CONTINUALLY
Egypt Air is the same airline for which a pilot purposely flew a jef-full of 217 passengers straight into the sea while intoning "Tawkalt ala Allah" ("I rely on Allah").
UPDATED AND BUMPED TO THE TOP FOR NOW
From NBC News:
Air traffic control tower audio conveys the frightening exchange between the tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport and a Lufthansa flight as the airbus came dangerously close to colliding with another jet.
The incident happened at about 6:30 p.m. Monday when an EgyptAir pilot apparently did not follow air traffic control instructions to hold short of its taxiway and veered into the path of the other plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration."Egypt Air 986, a B777, did not follow ATC instructions to hold short of Taxiway D. As a result, air traffic canceled the takeoff clearance for Lufthansa 411, an A346 on Runway 22R," FAA spokesman spokesman Jay Blackman said.The Lufthansa flight had been cleared for take-off moments before the EgyptAir plane veered into its path, and the pilots had to slam on the brakes to avoid a crash, reports The New York Post."Cancel take off! Cancel take-off plans!" shouted an air controller who saw the Munich-bound Lufthansa plane barreling toward the EgyptAir flight.It wasn't immediately clear how close the planes came to each other."The closest proximity still is being determined as part of our ongoing investigation," Blackman said.
UPDATES -The Lufthansa plane was taken off the runway for a brake inspection following the incident, and ended up departing about an hour and 40 minutes behind schedule. It landed safely in Munich.A Lufthansa spokesperson said the jet was carrying 286 passengers, plus crew, at the time of the incident. EgyptAir declined the Post's requests for comment, but the paper reports the airline's jets can carry up to 346 passengers in addition to crew.
- "Egypt Air 986, a B777, did not follow ATC " One wonders if the passengers of either flight have any awareness of the 'near miss' in which they were unwittingly assigned as sacrificial pawns. Investigators are looking at air traffic communications and radar replays. Is there any further investigation of this Egypt Air pilot? If not, why not?
- "Those two were coming together," radioed an unidentified pilot who witnessed the near-disaster. A few minutes later, a pilot aboard a Virgin America flight arriving from Los Angeles piped in: "That was quite a show."
- an EgyptAir plane that made a wrong turn into its path, sources told The Post.
- Egyptair: Threat Scribbled On Outiside Of Egyptair Plane, Pilot Spoke With Air Traffic Control For Several Minutes Before Crash... Account Directly Contradicts The Official Claim That There Was No Distress Call
NYT: EgyptAir Was Aware of Threats to Security, Including One Scribbled on PlaneThree EgyptAir security officials said the threatening graffiti, which appeared about two years ago, had been the work of aviation workers at Cairo Airport. Playing on the...
- Egyptair Flight Ms804 Has Crashed, (islamic Militants Claim Bomb Brought Down Plane?)
Update 2:30am CST – AP reports that the possibility that the plane has crashed has been confirmed.Update 4:00am CST – French Official believes terrorist event “almost certainly caused by attack”Update 4:20am CST – CNN reports...
- Suspected Drone Hits Plane During Heathrow Landing
From AFP: London (AFP) - A British Airways plane struck an object believed to be a drone on Sunday as it was coming in for landing at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, police said. An investigation has been launched into the incident,...
- Report: Co-pilot Of Germanwing Began Descent
From AFP: Marignane (France) (AFP) - The co-pilot "voluntarily" initiated the descent of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps and refused to open the door to the pilot who was outside the cockpit, the lead investigator said on Thursday. "The...
- U.s. Plane Turned Back To Amsterdam
No details are being released yet, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with terrorism: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Dutch fighter planes accompanied a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday,...