Aircraft Accident Brief Ntsb/aab-02/01 (Pb2002-910401): Egypt Air Flight 990, Boeing 767-366er, Su-Gap - National Transportation Safety Board Page 160

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totally unsupported opinion and not factual analysis. If the NTSB insists on this reasoning, then
it must add that during the last 10 seconds of the recording, when the Captain moved the left
elevator TED and the RFO moved the right elevator TEU, the RFO’s actions were consistent
with an attempt to recover the airplane, and the Captain’s were not. In fact, the Captain’s action
is completely contrary to his request to the RFO to “pull with me.”
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(Pages 80-81) The NTSB provides an unnecessary summary of its analysis,
based on the same erroneous facts and unsupported conclusions addressed by the comments set
forth above.
CONCLUSION
In summary, it is obvious that the NTSB has not done the type of professional accident
investigation expected by the Egyptian Government when delegation was convened in
November 1999. 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.
Therefore, the responsibility of the Egyptian Government for the integrity of air safety
and to underscore the work the Egyptian Investigation Team has done in the past 17 months,
obliges the Government of Egypt to prepare a comprehensive and objective report of accident.
This report is an accurate, technical document for use by an aviation industry that is truly
concerned with air safety and addressing the safety issue of the EgyptAir Flight 990 accident on
October 31, 1999.
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