A friend this morning remarked that a niece had died aboard Egyptair 990. This reminded me of what I have noted before on the list. The Egyptair representative on the joint investigation of this crash filed a dissenting opinion. He specified several cases of problems with B767 horizontal stabilizers. I searched the net for any response to this dissent, and what I found was a simple reassertion that the NTSB had devised a coherent reasonable account of the events leading up to the crash. I cannot find any refutation of the specific assertions in the dissenting opinion. As far as I can see, the U.S. investigators just said "We know what happened, so shut up. We'll agree not to issue any finding, we'll just leak it and say that we don't want to upset Egypt for political reasons." Another civil airline matter relevant to the attitude towards the U.S. relates to the USS Vincennes shooting down an Iranian Airbus. As far as I know the U.S. has never paid compensation to the survivors of the victims on the grounds that the money might wind up with the Iranian government. I suspect there are other examples of arrogance relating to air traffic that I am unaware of. People on the Eclipse list have been upset by the appendage I have felt moved to put on my e-mail signature. In fact I am a US Citizen, have never lived in Germany, but I feel as powerless as Good Germans did in the 1930's. My personal opposition to the Nazi Party predated January 30,1933. Perhaps I should put quotation marks around the appendage to my signature. If no one ever said it, I am sure there were millions who said nearly the same thing. I'm not trying to be provocative, I just want people to think. Gerry "I am a good German. I did not vote for the Nazis. I don't care who they send to the camps or what they do there as long as they don't send me." http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/africar/africa.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html