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To: Joseph Beltran who wrote (124976)	9/23/2001 10:29:14 AM
From: Gut Trader	Respond to of 436258

Don't forget about these crashes? Date: 10/31/1999 Location: Nantucket Island, Massachusetts Airline: EgyptAir Aircraft: Boeing 767-300ER Registration: SU-GAP Fatalities/No. Aboard: 217:217 Details: The plane took off from JFK at 1:19 a.m. bound for Cairo, Egypt. Thirty-three minutes later, after attaining an altitude of 33,000 feet, it was observed on radar in an extremely rapid descent and crashed seconds later into the Atlantic Ocean, 60 miles southeast of Nantucket Island The aircraft was named Thutmosis III. There are strong indications one of the co-pilots committed suicide. Date: 09/02/1998 Location: Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada Airline: Swissair Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Registration: HB-IWF Fatalities/No. Aboard: 229:229 Details: The aircraft was on a flight from JFK Airport, New York to Geneva, Switzerland. The crew reported smoke in the cockpit and requested an emergency landing at Halifax. The aircraft disappeared from radar and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax. Preliminary indications are that a major fire erupted in the cockpit or avionics bay below. Dr. Jonathan Mann, researcher in the fight against AIDS killed in the crash. Date: 07/17/1996 Location: East Moriches, New York Airline: TWA Trans World Airlines Aircraft: Boeing 747-100 Registration: N93119 Fatalities/No. Aboard: 230:230 Details: While on a flight from New York to Paris, France, the aircraft exploded at FL 130, broke up and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, N.Y. The NTSB determined that the probable cause of the accident was an explosion of the center wing fuel tank resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. The source of ignition energy for the explosion could not be determined with certainty but, of the sources evaluated by the investigation, the most likely was a short circuit outside of the center wing tank that allowed excessive voltage to enter it through electrical wiring associated with the fuel quantity indication system.