[KosmicKitty]

Isn’t this the same airline that several years ago had one of the crew, navigator IIRC, purposely fly the plane straight down into the ocean while yelling “Allah akbar” ?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

That was Egypt Air. 1999, off the coast of Long Island.

[NYRepublican72]

Isn’t this the same airline that several years ago had one of the crew, navigator IIRC, purposely fly the plane straight down into the ocean while yelling “Allah akbar” ?

No, you're thinking of Egypt Air Flight 990.

[Moose4]

No, but Ethiopian Airlines *did* have a 767 hijacked several years ago. It ended up ditching, out of fuel, into the water just off the Comoros Islands. About a third of the passengers survived. May not sound like it, but considering that the airplane was out of fuel and the pilot was being harassed in the cockpit by drunk knife-waving hijackers while trying to put the plane into the water, it was a hell of a piloting job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961

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