THE tragedy of Egypt Air Flight 990 is a monstrous trip over the cliff by a bunch of twits who think getting a government job is Nirvana.
On Sunday night, the pinstriped pooh-bahs of the National Transportation Safety Board, after days of mystery, mayhem and downright misinformation, leaked to all that it could not be sabotage, it could not be a kamikaze pilot.
But on Monday, the chairman of this so-called “safety board,” James Hall, said: “We are concentrating our efforts on determining from the evidence, including the cockpit voice recorder, whether or not this investigation is to remain under the leadership of the NTSB.”
When he was asked to elaborate, he repeated his foolish flack statement.
Now he wants the FBI to come in. You know, real investigators.
I was on the scene when many hearts broke after Flight 990 crashed. I could write a documentary on how this bunch of bureaucrats couldn’t slap both sides of their derrieres with their own hands.
Meanwhile, the Navy and the Coast Guard were literally risking their lives to put closure to an unspeakable tragedy.
Why wasn’t the FBI, trained cops, brought in immediately. James Hall is no Eliot Ness. He couldn’t catch a fly in the dung of the Brooklyn Museum.
But he and his gang managed to do one thing — 48 hours after everyone came from everywhere, to search for the remnants of their loved ones, he had a spokesman tell an understandably emotional audience that really, there wasn’t much use looking for bodies.
You’ll only get an arm or a leg, don’t bring a coffin — get a travel bag to take your son’s hand home.
The NTSB was created in 1967. Why? We had the Department of Transportation, we had the Federal Aviation Administration and we had the FBI and CIA to involve themselves in any disaster that may smell of evildoing.
But typical of Washington, the suits found yet another way to get a bunch of inept cronies on a federal payroll.
On Sunday night, the NTSB was spinning a yarn — the co-pilots were talking like old pals, and suddenly an alarm went off. In the eyes of the NTSB, that precluded evil intent.
How? There could have been someone in the cabin who fired a gun that burst the sleeve and skin of the plane, causing disastrous results. There could have been someone with a bow and arrow who did the same thing.
The cockpit recorder would not know. Everything has changed now, because on the voice recorder, there are words of religious hope calling to God. A kamikaze pilot? I don’t know.
Suddenly, half-wit Hall wants the FBI in, where they should have been in the first place.
In New York City, if there is a suspicious body found, cops are immediately called in. It could be a homicide, a suicide, or natural causes.
But cops are called in.