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The words "a sense of closure" have by now been uttered so often on camera--along with the companion phrase "the healing process," which is what observers hope will occur after the scab of closure has formed--that they have joined the off-the-rack vocabulary of stock phrases that ordinary Americans can pick from when a camera appears in front of them.
Heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir Flight 990, this Arabic sentence--in English, "I put my trust in God"--was uttered by Gamil al-Batouti, the relief co-pilot, just before the autopilot was shut off and the flaps adjusted to send the plane into a dive.
When uttered in circumstances where taboo language would seem either gratuitous or otherwise inappropriate, rude words are not only equally out of place in the world of make-believe as in the real world but, worse, they interfere (in both) with the message.
Batouti is suspected because: 1) he uttered a prayer immediately before disengaging the autopilot; 2) his controls were in the "nose down" position, while the captain's were in "nose up"; and 3) the captain pleaded with Batouti to help him pull the plane out of its dive.
The line was to have been uttered by a camcorder-wielding character in Godzilla , as the monster's scaly foot came thundering down towards him.