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Cutting the engines within seconds of leaving the ground doesn't fit suicide very well. I'd expect something more like flying into the side of a mountain or hea
by card_zero 1y ago
Cutting the engines within seconds of leaving the ground doesn't fit suicide very well. I'd expect something more like flying into the side of a mountain or heading really far out into the Indian ocean until you vanish from radar and cause a big mystery.
For instance, you might deliberately kill yourself by driving your car really fast into something solid, but you probably wouldn't try to do that while backing out of the garage.
- coolspot 1y agoI think it is opposite. Flying into a mountain & etc would require one pilot to somehow incapacitate another pilot. Cutting fuel off, if done on takeoff, is not recoverable (engines can’t relight and spin up quickly enough).
- card_zero 1y agoOK, that makes a kind of sense, altitude would spoil the plan, if a suicidal pilot's only plan was to cut the engines.
- userbinator 1y agoSee Germanwings 9525 for an example of a conclusive suicide with no doubt from all the evidence.
- card_zero 1y agoSee me obliquely referencing that with "flying into the side of a mountain".