Six cases of suspected airline pilot suicides

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-32610497

Six cases of suspected airline pilot suicides

A report by French investigators into the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps in March says co-pilot Andreas Lubitz may have practised for a rapid descent on a previous flight. It also highlights six other accidents since 1980 that were possibly "caused by intentional manoeuvres by one of the flight crew members".

(continued, fly safe...)

[Hermit]

This is bound to reassure Jim that long distance travel is perfectly safe.

At least when done by car, train or boat.

[Seth]

I know, let's fly planes under the Marxist principle of democracy! Each passenger will have a set of controls at their seat, and a computer will integrate all the inputs ever 10 milliseconds and order the plane to fly wherever or however a majority of the passengers choose!

[JimC]

This is bound to reassure Jim that long distance travel is perfectly safe.

At least when done by car, train or boat.

Fuckin' oath!

[Seth]

This is bound to reassure Jim that long distance travel is perfectly safe.

At least when done by car, train or boat.

Fuckin' oath!

Actually, statistically speaking you're far safer in an airliner than you are in a car, on a train, or in a boat.

Then again, nothing is "perfectly safe" and sometimes you die.