Aircraft Accident Brief Ntsb/aab-02/01 (Pb2002-910401): Egypt Air Flight 990, Boeing 767-366er, Su-Gap - National Transportation Safety Board Page 135
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160 III. Specific Comments Regarding The NTSB’s Draft Report, Which Is
Based Upon an Incomplete Investigation, Unverified Data, and
Unsupported Conclusions
As stated previously, the ECAA prepared a separate report:
a) Pursuant to section 5.3 of Annex 13, it was anticipated that the investigation would be
conducted as a partnership between equals. However, it soon became apparent that the NTSB
leadership did not regard the Egyptian delegation as an equal partner and shared its processes, if
at all, on a selective and seemingly random basis. Often the Egyptian delegation read about the
NTSB’s views in the press without prior communication.
b) Because of the flawed and biased NTSB investigation; and because the NTSB draft
report is specifically dedicated to proving the deliberate act (suicide) theory. Under these
circumstances, the ECAA’s “comments” on the draft could never be adequate to correct all of the
deficiencies of the NTSB draft or to provide input for meaningful revisions to the report. The
draft NTSB report would require a major revision to include an expanded analysis of critical
issues and, most importantly, an objective assessment of the evidence.
Consequently, the ECAA was compelled to develop a separate report concerning the
EgyptAir Flight 990 accident. However, it is important to underscore the following major
deficiencies in the draft NTSB report in order to highlight those shortcomings which hampered
the accident investigation, and which now are incorporated into the draft NTSB report.
• The draft NTSB report selectively uses the facts of the investigation to develop, support
and “prove” the findings of the deliberate act scenario which appears to have been
predetermined since November 1999. The NTSB’s most glaring omission is its failure to
discuss any evidence of the motive or intent that would have caused the relief First
Officer to take the “deliberate act” that the NTSB alleges. Similarly, the NTSB fails to
account for specific facts in the record that refute the possibility of an intentional act by
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