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Of course it's really early so you have to be very careful as to making judgements at this point, but if it really is pilot murder/suicide there is some (limite
by lolo_ 12y ago
Of course it's really early so you have to be very careful as to making judgements at this point, but if it really is pilot murder/suicide there is some (limited) precedence:-
* An EgyptAir flight in 1999 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
* A Silkair (Singapore airline) flight in 1997 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185
There is debate in both flights as to whether it was murder/suicide, but the evidence is totally overwhelming that it was. Horrific but thankfully massively rare (as you might expect.) I do hope this isn't the cause here :(
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- eik3_de 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_...
- caf 12y agoAlso http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350 ...and of course deep suspicions remain about MH370.
- laurencei 12y agoThe thing about those two flights is the pilots tried to make it look like an accident - but was ultimately determined to be intentional. In this case it would seem that no effort was made to hide the fact it was intentional.
- lolo_ 12y agoI don't think we know enough at this point to be sure of that at all (and we don't even know if it's murder/suicide.) Also I don't think you are correct about the Egyptair flight - that was more of a sudden dive, whereas on the Silkair flight the perpetrator intentionally disconnected the flight data and cockpit voice recorders. Just because the governments of the countries involved didn't like the outcome of the investigations (far more so in the case of the Egyptair flight) doesn't mean it was covered up by the perpetrators, this was clearly for political/religious reasons - the failure mode suggested by the Egyptian investigators was totally unsupported by evidence.
- brc 12y agoThe Egyptair flight had the crashing pilot saying prayers to Allah all the way down, captured on the voice recorder. The engines were shut off and the other officer was fighting the stick all the way down. There is zero doubt as to what happened, only a political cover up by Egypt air authorities after they realised what had happened.
- lolo_ 12y agoYes this is what I said - 'but the evidence is totally overwhelming that it was'. But it is worth highlighting, particularly in the Egyptair case!