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Bermuda Triangle8217; myth deepens
Flying, every airline will tell you, is the safest way to travel. Yet, after each plane crash, once the dead have been buried and the acc...
Flying, every airline will tell you, is the safest way to travel. Yet, after each plane crash, once the dead have been buried and the accident investigators have sifted through the debris, the cause can often remain unresolved 8211; with everything from terrorism to faulty electrical wiring and pilot error blamed.
8220;It is very rare for aviation accidents to have one single cause,8221; according to a civil aviation authority spokesman. 8220;Look at any disaster 8212; unless it8217;s caused by a terrorist bomb, it8217;s normally down to a number of factors which, taken individually, would not cause a major problem.8221;
However, experts pointed out that EgyptAir 990 vanished without warning from the radar screens yesterday and no mayday signal was sent 8212; suggesting that the jet fell out of the sky as a result of a single catastrophic event.
The airline was quickly to say that it had received no terrorist threats. Earlier this month, a man hijacked an EgyptAir jet on its way from Istanbul to Cairo. He finally surrendered topolice in Germany.
Another more controversial theory being touted yesterday was that flight 990 was a victim of 8220;the Bermuda Triangle of the north8221;. The crash, in the North Atlantic off Nantucket, Massachusetts, is the fourth air accident to occur in the area in nearly as many years.
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