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Atta told Binalshibh he wanted to select planes departing on long flights because they would be full of fuel, and that he wanted to hijack Boeing aircraft because he believed them easier to fly than Airbus aircraft, which he understood had an autopilot feature that did not allow them to be crashed into the ground.
In its (reefered) EgyptAir story, the Post notes that the data recorder reveals no abrupt movements and that the plane maintained its compass setting during the dive, which occurred eight seconds after the autopilot shut off.
The NTSB did not give any specifics about the contents of the cockpit voice recorder, but the papers publish leaked details: Just before EgyptAir's autopilot is turned off, the cockpit door apparently opens and shuts several times and then a pilot utters what appears to be an Islamic prayer--whether as an expression of alarm or of suicide is unknown.
The autopilot is an electronic system that manipulates the three "control surfaces" that determine an airplane's course: the movable panels, called ailerons, on the back of each wing that allow the plane to bank right or left; the tail rudder, which turns the aircraft's nose; and the elevators, which point the plane up or down.
It is unknown whether the autopilot disengaged automatically or manually; most papers merely note this fact in passing, but the Post oddly attributes this uncertainty to "sources close to the investigation."