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Washington - A New York hotel mulled banning the co-pilot at the controls of doomed EgyptAir Flight 990 because of an alleged pattern of sexual misconduct toward staff and guests and discussed its concerns with his employer, FBI documents made public Friday showed.
A room maid, for instance, claimed the co-pilot, Gamil al- Batouti, had propositioned her in vain as many as 20 times, most recently the night before the Oct. 31, 1999, crash.
At least 10 hotel workers interviewed by the FBI linked Batouti to lewd acts-including allegedly tailing teenage girls to their room, then phoning to draw their attention to a window where he purportedly exposed himself or masturbated.
Egyptian authorities and others strongly objected to disclosure of accounts of Batouti's behaviour as irrelevant to the crash that killed all 217 people aboard a Cairo- bound Boeing 767 from New York.
"It appears...