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Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount

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Re: Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount

#6
The article is terribly written and accusingly ambiguous with scope. This quote from the fine article is not better in the context of the article that it is here on its own:

  > While intentional acts traditionally aren’t included in air-crash
  > statistics, they would be the second-largest category of deaths
  > worldwide if they were, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Re: Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount

#7
> Fatal crashes of private, business, and corporate-executive airplanes have increased after publicized murder-suicides. The more publicity given to a murder-suicide, the more crashes occurred. The increase in plane crashes occurred primarily in states where the murder-suicides were publicized. These findings suggest that murder-suicide stories trigger subsequent murder-suicides, some of which are disguised as airplane accidents.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17750236/

The media has known about their role in inducing murder-suicides by reporting on them for decades, but they keep doing it.

Re: Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount

#9

A nose dive maneuver (and any that are clearly anomalous and dangerous) should require simultaneous action by the co-pilot as the likelihood of a double murder-suicide would be incredibly small.

For the majority of charter/private/business flights this wouldn't be feasible as the vast majority of flights tend to be single pilot ops.
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