Germanwings Flight Carrying at Least 148 Crashes in Southern France

[mongers]

Apparently pilot suicide is more common than some would think, but it invariable involve just the pilot in a small aircraft:

http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/03/pilot_suicide_blamed_for_8_us.html

[Zanza]

Apparently pilot suicide is more common than some would think, but it invariable involve just the pilot in a small aircraft:

Nah...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185

[crazy canuck]

Apparently pilot suicide is more common than some would think, but it invariable involve just the pilot in a small aircraft:

http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/03/pilot_suicide_blamed_for_8_us.html

Actually, the conclusion is that pilot suicide is very rare.

If the crash was due to a crew member's suicide, it would be an exceedingly rare event. A National Transportation Safety Board study released last month shows eight of 2,758 fatal aviation accidents in the U.S. from 2003 to 2012 involved intentional crashes of the aircraft by a pilot or crew member

[Zanza]

And that's as out of a total of aviation accidents. If you take it out of a total of all flights, it must be like one in a million (or probably even less). 

[crazy canuck]

And that's as out of a total of aviation accidents. If you take it out of a total of all flights, it must be like one in a million (or probably even less).

[mongers]

And that's as out of a total of aviation accidents. If you take it out of a total of all flights, it must be like one in a million (or probably even less).

At any one time isn't there's somewhere like 6,000 to 10,000 airliners/aircraft in the skies worldwide, so that would suggest what several million multi-engined flights per year, so yes it is rare, just not sometime you'd want to happen on your flight.

I wonder how those figures compare with terrorist attacks or military action against civilian flights over a long timescale, say the last 40-50 years?

[mongers]

Apparently pilot suicide is more common than some would think, but it invariable involve just the pilot in a small aircraft:

Nah...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAM_Mozambique_Airlines_Flight_470
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185

I was going with what the report said 7 of the 8 flights involved single engined/ lone pilots. 

[Tamas]

And that's as out of a total of aviation accidents. If you take it out of a total of all flights, it must be like one in a million (or probably even less).

At any one time isn't there's somewhere like 6,000 to 10,000 airliners/aircraft in the skies worldwide, so that would suggest what several million multi-engined flights per year, so yes it is rare, just not sometime you'd want to happen on your flight.

That's a problem of perspective, needless to say. It is drastically more likely that you will die in your car, because some idiot overtakes when he shouldn't and smashes straight into you at high speed.

[lustindarkness]

If we lived afraid to die all the time, we would not live.

[Admiral Yi]

Do we have any information about the copilot's ethnicity/religion? 

[Zanza]

Do we have any information about the copilot's ethnicity/religion? 

German/unknown

Had a depression/burn-out six years ago. Was never noticed in the regular screenings of pilots by the air safety authorities here.

[viper37]

You think the co-pilot killed a plan load of people over a labour dispute?

Why not? I regularly commit mass murder when I don't get a bonus.

It's a wonder I still have my job. 

you're Call of Duty kills don't count.

[Malthus]

You think the co-pilot killed a plan load of people over a labour dispute?

Why not? I regularly commit mass murder when I don't get a bonus.

It's a wonder I still have my job. 

you're Call of Duty kills don't count.

For old time's sake - EU2 kills. 

[Liep]

You think the co-pilot killed a plan load of people over a labour dispute?

Why not? I regularly commit mass murder when I don't get a bonus.

It's a wonder I still have my job. 

you're Call of Duty kills don't count.

For old time's sake - EU2 kills. 

And all that killing was in the name of God which is very out of fashion in the west these days, so better keep it silent.

[Razgovory]

Do we have any information about the copilot's ethnicity/religion? 

German white guy