If your name is Nora Hamdy please do not – I REPEAT DO NOT – read this. If you do, don’t worry – flying is a safe and a fun and amazing experience only a fraction of the world population experiences – so savor these few hours and enjoy your reclining chair, posh menu and in-flight movie (pick the Hangover, it’s hilarious and Bradley Cooper – YUM!)
Nora, I’m serious, stop reading…
Someone mentioned the Egyptair Flight 990 that crashed into the Atlantic 10 years ago and started a discussion about whether the co-pilot actually crashed the plane or not; which I found out later was quite a big deal in the investigation. I haven’t exactly followed that accident at all. So I put my googeling to task and found out all about the investigation.
So yeah, it seems like the dude did in fact crash the thing,,, I’m not big on conspiracy theories, and yes, we’ll never know, but evidence point to where evidence point.
I ended up reading the transcript of the audio tapes of the cockpit; and I found them quite haunting.
The last minute the audio tapes shows the co-pilot repeating something you’d typically say when you start doing something. The captain’s last words were him basically asking what was happening and saying repeatedly “pull with me”.
I have no idea what brought me to read such a disturbing document, and now I can’t get it out of my head.
I don’t really think about the co-pilot, or the passengers; it’s that captain trying to pull the plane up that is stuck in my head. While the passengers were saying their prayers, that captain had no time to say his prayers – his mind was probably racing trying to find out what the hell went wrong while he was in the toilet, wondering if he should have just held it in, hoping his pulling efforts would work. He didn’t even have time to say his prayers!
I should stop googeling things…..
2 comments:
you should, that was very morose.
And .. how was Nora's flight? :D
hehe she still has to fly next week :)
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