Quote: (03-26-2015 03:13 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
As tragic as this is, commercial airline pilot suicides are exceedingly rare incidents. We should be careful about going overboard with "what's wrong with our society" commentary when you're dealing with a 1 in 10 million incident.
The conditions have changed. Now with the reinforced cockpit door it is possible for a depressed pilot to take this way out. Maybe they didn't do it before because it was considerably harder to do. But now every depressed pilot knows it is an option. So will this become more frequent? Also, we still don't know what happened to Malaysia 370 flight where pilot sabotage was suspected but with no evidence because the plane was never found.
The surprising frequency of pilot suicides
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...-suicides/
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