SilkAir Flight 185 (1997)
Pilot Suicide: SilkAir Flight 185 (1997)
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 0042 MYT on Saturday, 8 March 2014 and was expected to arive at Beijing Capital International Airport at 0630 MYT. However, the aircraft never arrived.
About 40 minutes into the flight, MH370 diverted westward and after crossing peninsula Malaysia flew north-west towards the Andaman Sea, and then turned south. The flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean. No-one knows why. No-one survived, so the incident could be described as murder-suicide. Thankfully few commercial passenger flights have ended tragically by pilot suicide, and in instances other than MH370 wreckage and flight recorders have been recovered.
Silk Air Flight 185
Silk Air Flight 185 is cited as an example of pilot suicide. The aircraft was a Boeing 737-300 operated by SilkAir, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines. SilkAir ceased operations in 2021.
SilkAir Flight 185 departed Jakarta on 19 December 1997 with a crew of 7 and 97 passengers, an international flight to Singapore. However, while the aircraft was cruising at 35,000 feet it began a steep dive and crashed into the Musi River, near Palembang, Sumatra. As the aircraft descent was near vertical the speed increased to almost supersonic and parts of the aircraft, particularly the tail section, broke off. There were no survivors.
Was this a case of pilot-suicide? The official causes for the crash may be inconclusive, but other evidence points toward the tragedy as deliberate.
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Source:SilkAir Flight 185, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185