1. Gameel Al-Batouti was a pilot for EgyptAir and a former officer for the Egyptian Air Force.
11 Facts About Gameel Al-Batouti
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Investigators learned from another EgyptAir pilot that Gameel Al-Batouti was supposedly reprimanded for repeated inappropriate behaviour with female guests at the Hotel Pennsylvania, a New York City hotel often used by EgyptAir crews, by an EgyptAir official who was a passenger on the flight.
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Gameel Al-Batouti was born in the farming community of Kafr al-Dabusi, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt.
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Gameel Al-Batouti had been conscripted into the Egyptian Air Force, where he was trained as a pilot and flight instructor.
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Gameel Al-Batouti then worked for a time as an instructor at the Egypt Aviation Academy.
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Gameel Al-Batouti was approaching mandatory retirement, and had planned to split his time between a 10-bedroom villa outside of Cairo and a beach house near El Alamein.
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At the time of his death, Gameel Al-Batouti was the most senior first officer flying the 767 at EgyptAir.
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Gameel Al-Batouti had not been promoted to captain because he declined to sit for the exam for his Airline Transport Pilot Licence rating.
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The ATPL study materials and exam are conducted in English, the international language of aviation, and Gameel Al-Batouti did not have sufficient English proficiency.
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Investigators learned from another EgyptAir pilot that Gameel Al-Batouti was supposedly reprimanded for repeated inappropriate behaviour with female guests at the Hotel Pennsylvania, a New York City hotel often used by EgyptAir crews.
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Some of Gameel Al-Batouti's final recorded words on the cockpit voice recorder were "Tawkalt ala Allah", which can be translated as "I rely on God", 11 times.