PORTION OF THE OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT FROM EGYPTAIR FLIGHT 990 on October 31, 1999

NOTE: EgyptAir Flight 990 Crashed Sixty Miles South of Nantucket Shortly after leaving JFK with the loss of 217 persons, including 100 Americans and 89 Egyptians.

El Batouty: Look, here’s the new first officer’s pen. Give it to him please. God spare you.
(unidentified voice):Yeah.
El Batouty: To make sure it doesn’t get lost.
El Habashy: Excuse me, Jimmy, while I take a quick trip to the toilet …
     (whirring sound similar to electric seat motor operating; sound of click; sound similar to cockpit door operating)
El Batouty: Go ahead, please.
     (sound of several clicks)
El Habashy: … before it gets crowded. While they are eating, and I’ll get back to you.
     (sound similar to cockpit door operating; sound of thunk; sound of clink)
(unidentified voice): [three unintelligible syllables]
     (sound of click and thump)
El Batouty: I rely on God. (heard faintly)
     (sounds of thumps and clicks for about 30 seconds; whirring sound similar to electric seat motor operating; two faint thumps followed by louder thump; about 17 seconds later, two clicks and two thumps)
El Batouty: I rely on God.
     (one loud thump and three faint thumps)
El Batouty: I rely on God. I rely on God.
     (four tones similar to Master Caution aural beeper)

El Batouty: I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God. I rely on God.
     (sound of loud thump)
El Batouty: I rely on God.
El Habashy: What’s happening? What’s happening?
El Batouty: I rely on God.
     (sound of numerous thumps and clicks continue for approximately 15 seconds; repeating high-low tone similar to Master Warning aural starts and continues to the end of recording)
El Batouty: I rely on God.
El Habashy: What’s happening?
(unidentified voice): [unintelligible]
El Habashy: What’s happening, Gamil? What’s happening?
     (four tones similar to Master Caution aural beeper)
El Habashy: What is this? What is this? Did you shut the engine[s]?
     (one microphone detects a change and increase in sound)
El Habashy: Get away in the engines. Shut the engines.
El Batouty: It’s shut.
El Habashy: Pull. Pull with me. Pull with me. Pull with me.
     According to investigators, the transcript ends here — at 1:50 a.m. and 38 seconds EST — as the aircraft starts to descend from cruise altitude. Apparently, electrical power to the recorder ended at that time.