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BOSTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Ten years after an EgyptAir plane bound from New York to Cairo crashed into the Atlantic, the United States and Egypt still disagree on what happened.
Saturday is the anniversary of the crash, which killed 217 people
The National Transportation Safety Board investigation suggested the first officer, Gamil El Batouty, deliberately brought Flight 990 down in 1999. Batouty, at the controls while Capt. Ahmed El Habashy used the bathroom, repeated "I rely on God" in Arabic shortly before the crash.
The Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority said Batouty might have lost control while trying to avoid a collision. But no other plane or flying object was identified.
"When evading a UFO is your best argument for why an aircraft did that, you're on pretty weak ground," R. John Hansman Jr., an aviation expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Boston Herald.
Habashy returned to the controls while the plane was falling and got it back to 25,000 feet before it started plunging once more.
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