Hi,
when the captain and the f/e (the f/o where at the controls) first time noticed, that they were not at the position they should be, they be at the begin of the descend at 29.000 ft.
While the f/o handle the controlls in the descend, the rest of the cockpitcrew start to tune in every radio navigation aid, they knew. Then they asked the ATC at Cairo for asistance, but no success.
When the israeli interceptors finaly open fire in 6.000 ft. , the LAA crew still thinks, they were near the airport in Cairo.
Strange.
A israeli newspaper wrote after the crash, that the french captain and the f/e had alcohol in their blood, but there was nothing official from the israeli side, nor in the ICAO report.