THE MEDIA KEEPS TRYING TO DIVERT THE TRUTH. OF COURSE THEY WILL DO THIS. WHO OWNS THEM. THEIR VERY WORLD WILL COLLAPSE IS THE TRUTH IS KNOWN.

THE ONLY WAY FOR THE TRUTH OF THIS CRASH TO BE KNOWN IS FOR EGYPT TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE INVESTIGATION. THE MAJOR MEDIA WILL NEVER TELL THE TRUTH. BUT IT WILL BE COVERED IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. START READING ISLAMIC PAPERS.

Sunday, November 14 2:39 AM SGT

Brother of doomed EgyptAir pilot dismisses suicide speculation CAIRO, Nov 13 (AFP) - The pilot of the doomed EgyptAir flight bought baby clothes for his future grandchild before taking off for Cairo, his brother said Saturday, dismissing speculation he crashed the plane in a suicide plunge.

Captain Ahmed al-Habashi went shopping with a nephew in the New York City area before the ill-fated flight for clothes and feeding bottles for the man's pregnant daughter, Habashi's brother Sayed told AFP.

Investigators have not ruled out a suicide mission by one of the pilots and aviation experts have said the way Flight 990 plummeted into the Atlantic on October 31, killing all 217 aboard, could suggest the crew intended to crash.

But family and colleagues alike portrayed Habashi and the rest of the eight-member flight crew as mentally stable with no record of disciplinary or professional misconduct.

"Ahmed was a very experienced pilot, and he wasn't the only one in the cockpit," Sayed said at his Cairo home, showing photographs of his late brother.

"Would the others sit back and watch him commit suicide?" he asked, adding that his brother had asked him if he wanted him to bring back any gifts from the United States.

Aviation expert Barry Schiff, a veteran pilot, said the way the plane dived and the fact that both engines shut off suggests there was "something really screwy going on in the cockpit."

"The only reason you would shut off the engines is if you want to go down permanently," he said.

But EgyptAir's deputy head of Boeing 767 pilots, Captain Rushdi Zakariya, said there were "many reasons" why the engines could have cut off by themselves, such as clogged filters that could prevent fuel from reaching the engines.

Sayed said his brother was a healthy and very religious man who had had neither an accident nor even a close call during his 40-year flying career.

The pilot's wife, Maria al-Habashi, said airport officials in New York had told her the captain was joking with the other cabin crew before boarding the flight.

"He was jolly as usual," she told AFP, dismissing a report by the Boston Herald that some crew members were worried there was something wrong with the plane.

The paper, citing an unnamed source, said one crew member telephoned his wife to say he was "very worried" and had reason to believe "there was something wrong with the plane."

Zakariya, who used to fly with Habashi, said his late colleague was a "very nice guy and a good pilot" who had flown 767s for more than 11 years.

Habashi, who flew a C-30 transport plane during the October 1973 war against Israel, was also a strong swimmer who had won national medals, his brother said.

"He never smoked or drank alcohol. He had no bad habits. He was very religious and prayed and was always reading the Koran."

But he stressed that the 57-year-old captain was "not an extremist."

"He wasn't like those deviant people. He was a very calm man who never got angry with anyone."

Sayed said that when investigators discover the cockpit voice recorder, the second so-called "black box" which records the last 30 minutes of the pilots' conversations, "everything will become clear."

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