According to new reports, Osama Bin Laden was inspired to carry out the 9/11 deadly terrorist attacks on the World trade centre by Egyptian pilot, Gameel Al-Batouti, who crashed EgyptAir Flight 990 into the Atlantic ocean in murder-suicide on October 31, 1999, killing all 217 people aboard, including 100 Americans.
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| Bin Laden (L) Pilot Gameel Al-Batouti (R) |
The experienced pilot, 59, who was flying from Los Angeles to Cairo, overrode the flight's autopilot and sent the plane nosediving into the Atlantic Ocean. While terrorism was considered as a possible motive, investigators found he had been facing disciplinary issues at work and was about to be banned from flying transatlantic routes.
