Former minister says EgyptAir pilot lost control
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CAIRO - Egypt's former civil aviation minister says that if it's confirmed the EgyptAir plane swerved before it crashed, this means that "something happened that forced the pilots to lose control over the plane."
Mustafa Kamel told The Associated Press that the debris from the plane and the black box, if recovered, could help uncover "what happened that forced the pilot to lose control."
He spoke on Thursday after authorities said that the jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard had made a mysterious series of extremely abrupt turns before crashing into the Mediterranean Sea.
Kamel says passenger planes are not designed to make a 360-degree swerves while in flight and that something like that is "disproportionate" to a passenger plane's design.
He says that "these are not warplanes."
