World News 03-11-1999 EgyptAir Crash Latest who: 217 dead what: Linked to 1991 crash where: Atlantic when: Yesterday snippet: "Parallels drawn between the EgyptAir crash and that of the 1991 Lauda Air disaster over Thailand gained further substance last night with a report that Flight 900 experienced problems on an earlier leg of its journey with a thrust reverser," reports The Independent. "That was the problem that caused the crash of the Lauda plane." The thruster was deactivated when the plane began its journey to Cairo from Los Angeles. But the plane never made it to its destinations, nosediving into the Atlantic killing 217 people. "Experts say the deactivation pin could have failed mid-flight," reports the BBC, "and the reverse thruster may have deployed - as it did on another Boeing 767 manufactured at exactly the same time as this one, the Lauda Air plane which crashed in Thailand in 1991." [... more]

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