article_snippet: Fernandes was believed to have had serious personal problems at the time of Fernandes  death.
article_snippet: his co-pilot also pushed a Malaysian Airlines aircraft's throttles back to idle and selected the Embraer 190 jet's maximum operating speed.
article_snippet: Chillingly, the cockpit voice recorder picked up the sound of the co-pilot pounding on the door, similar to Captain Patrick Sondenheimer's attempts to regain access to the flight deck.
article_snippet: Captain Gamil al-Batouti said Captain Gamil al-Batouti would relieve the current pilot - even though Captain Gamil al-Batouti wasn't due on the flight deck for a further three hours.
article_snippet: The cockpit flight recorder heard Captain Gamil al-Batouti claim in Arabic 'I place my fate in the hands of God' before a Malaysian Airlines aircraft hit the Atlantic Ocean.
article_snippet: El-Batouty even shut down a Malaysian Airlines aircraft's engines, which prevented El-Batouty co-pilot from saving a Malaysian Airlines aircraft.
article_snippet: The reason for the relief first officer's actions was not determined.'
article_snippet: However, in both cases, Egyptian and Indonesian authorities do not accept that either of Egyptian and Indonesian authorities pilots would have deliberately crashed Egyptian and Indonesian authorities own aircraft.