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— WASHINGTON (AP) — The first
1Brf abnormality aboard Egypt Air
I O Clfllghc 990 came when the autopilot
! Bnnected not long after the plane
i n the da\ gan what should have been a long
; on Scott !Tiod of cruise flight, the National
1 he Associaitinsportation Safety Board (NTSB)
V ot the telepiid yesterday,
s a two-min NTSB Chairperson Jim Hall,
s private phoving the first bits of information
oftice on the )m the plane’s flight data
'98, to James corder, said that eight seconds
home telepjter the autopilot disconnected,
f»le w York-to-Cairo flight “be
ds contend thus what appears to be a con-
jnner for the riled descent” from 33,000 feet
■ntial nominal: about 19,000 feet.
■il the family. The recorder stopped shortly af-
. . ——Jard, and the final five to 10 sec-
vhite supren#
onds of information on its tape are
still being analyzed by safety board
technicians, Hall said.
He dashed speculation that the
plane’s initial plunge was caused
by a problem with a thrust reverser
— the cause of a 1991 crash of an
other Boeing 767 in Thailand.
Thrust reversers are used to slow
an airplane upon touchdown with
the runway. One of EgyptAir’s re
versers was out of service at the time
of the Oct. 31 crash.
“There is no evidence of thrust
reverser deployment in the data we
have,” Hall said.
The tape could provide the best ev
idence yet into what doomed the jet.
Flight 990 took off early Hal
loween morning from New York’s
Kennedy International Airport, ris
ing to 33,000 feet before plunging
into the sea south of Nantucket Is
land, Mass., about 40 minutes af
ter takeoff. All 217 people aboard
were killed.
Investigators have not ruled out
any possible cause, including me
chanical failure, human error, sabo
tage and terrorism.
The flight data recorder was de
signed to capture over 150 types of
information from 55 aircraft sys
tems over a rolling 25-hour period.
Among them were such things as
the plane’s altitude, speed, spin and
roll, when electrical power was cut off,
and how the autopilot functioned.
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