BOEING HAS BEEN BOUGHT OFF WITH NEW GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND PROMISES OF MORE CONTRACTS PLUS HELP WITH THEIR UNION PROBLEMS.

WHO WILL BUY OFF THE EGYPTIANS? WILL THE UNITED STATES UP THEIR WELFARE DOLE TO 26 BILLION, INSTEAD OF THE 13 THEY ARE NOW GETTING?

OR WILL THE EGYPTIANS DISCOVER THE TRUTH OF WHO DOWNED 990 AND WHY?

AND WILL THEY SEEK REVENGE THEREBY IGNITING A WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

MONEY WORKS WONDERS TO PREVENT ANYTHING. IF SOMEONE WANTS TO STOP ARMAGEDDON, A FEW BILLION IN THE RIGHT POCKET WILL DO THE TRICK.

Friday December 3 9:10 AM ET

EgyptAir Chief: Plane Crash May Be Due to Collision

CAIRO (Reuters) - EgyptAir's doomed Flight 990 may have collided with anobject causing its nosedive into the Atlantic Ocean, the airline chief has said in published remarks.

``Serious damage to the tail unit, caused, perhaps, by a collision with a solid body, would explain the rapid descent,'' the English-language Al-Ahram Weekly quoted EgyptAir chairman Fahim Rayyan as saying in its Thursday's issue.

The Cairo-bound airliner's plunge into the ocean, killing all 217 people on board, on October 31 remains a mystery.

The weekly quoted EgyptAir's Chief Pilot Tarek Selim in last week's issue as suggesting that the tail unit was hit by a bomb or a missile.

``There are two possibilities that would cause the tail unit to split off. Either a bomb was attached to the tail or it was hit by a missile,'' Selim told the weekly, before leaving for New York to join investigations into the crash.

Rayyan rejected all unsubstantiated assumptions, saying: ''The investigations are continuing and it is unprofessional to rush to judgement without having all the necessary evidence.''

He added that Egyptian and U.S. experts were cooperating to find the causes of the crash, and criticized media reports in the United States that speculated that co-pilot Gameel al-Batouti deliberately sent the plane plunging into the ocean in a suicidal act.

``The Americans respect Egypt's contribution to the investigation and have so far agreed with most of our arguments,'' Rayyan said.

He said investigators from EgyptAir and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) would travel to Boeing headquarters in Seattle to re-enact the flight on a 767 cockpit simulator.