The Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines 370

[jimmy olsen]

Really good article by the Atlantic on this flight that comes to the conclusion that it was almost certainly the Captain who did it

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

[Caliga]

I agree that was a good article, but I was under the impression that the consensus was settled on the Captain as the perpetrator years ago.

[Admiral Yi]

I feel thoroughly informed.

[The Brain]

Executive summary? What was his motive, and how did he manage to do it?

[grumbler]

I agree that was a good article, but I was under the impression that the consensus was settled on the Captain as the perpetrator years ago.

Yeah, the modelling of that flight on the Captain's flight simulator program was pretty conclusive.

[grumbler]

Executive summary? What was his motive, and how did he manage to do it?

Motive unknown, but he likely did it by sending the co-pilot out of the cockpit, locking the door, and depressurizing the cabin.  The emergency breathing systems only last 15 minutes.

[Admiral Yi]

Executive summary? What was his motive, and how did he manage to do it?

Just read the article.  It's only 60 pages.

[The Brain]

I read it. Just like the German guy (AFAIK), the lack of motive seems weird to me. I can totally believe that they were suicidal, but that doesn't explain why they were homicidal.

[Caliga]

Murder-suicide isn't all that uncommon, and not sure how you can ask dead guys what motivated them in order to gain a general understanding of why they felt compelled to murder others in their act of suicide.

[The Brain]

Murder-suicide isn't all that uncommon, and not sure how you can ask dead guys what motivated them in order to gain a general understanding of why they felt compelled to murder others in their act of suicide.

Do you include stuff like guy murdering his wife and then killing himself in murder-suicides? How common is suicide that involves murdering strangers?

[Admiral Yi]

Do you include stuff like guy murdering his wife and then killing himself in murder-suicides? How common is suicide that involves murdering strangers?

Obviously pretty common for suicide vest guys.  This is clearly different.

Maybe he really hated dickheaded Chinese tourists. 

[The Brain]

Do you include stuff like guy murdering his wife and then killing himself in murder-suicides? How common is suicide that involves murdering strangers?

Obviously pretty common for suicide vest guys.  This is clearly different.

Maybe he really hated dickheaded Chinese tourists. 

Suicide vests seem to me to be murders that involve suicide, not the other way around. As you say it's not the same thing.

[Josquius]

Is there any reason the cockpit needs the controls to dwlressure the cabin?

[jimmy olsen]

Murder-suicide isn't all that uncommon, and not sure how you can ask dead guys what motivated them in order to gain a general understanding of why they felt compelled to murder others in their act of suicide.

Murder suicides usually involve people the killer has a grudge against, or some sort of twisted love or relationship. They don't typically involve hundreds of unrelated victims.

[Tonitrus]

Wasn't there also that depressed pilot that crashed a jet into the Alps several years ago?