Blacksheep:
To be sure, the investigation "took so long" and at U.S. taxpayer cost of $17 Million Dollars, not because F/O Batouty's actions were in doubt, but because of bilateral politics.
Upon recovery of the FDR and its data, it was immediately established that
both fuel ignition switches had been turned off.
Obviously there is no imaginable inflight emergency or probability, at night over water, which would call for such a suicidal measure.. .It takes two human fingers to pull and position those two spring loaded lever locked switches! <img src="confused.gif" border="0">