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Comments on: That’s Odd https://whynow.dumka.us/2015/03/25/thats-odd/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2015/03/25/thats-odd/comment-page-1/#comment-77936 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:50:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=34987#comment-77936 In reply to Steve Bates.

Because the tracking indicates a controlled descent and no alarms heard on the voice recorder, it would have taken multiple control changes to do that. The actions were too specific to have occurred without intentional actions by the pilot. The aircraft should have been on autopilot as it was at its assigned altitude and course. The data recorder can detect the changes if they locate it. If the pilot had been incapacitated, the autopilot would have continued to maintain course and altitude, not descend.

The last verified case was in 2013, in a flight over Africa, but there have been a few other cases where pilot suicide is one of the suspected possibilities.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2015/03/25/thats-odd/comment-page-1/#comment-77934 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:13:41 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=34987#comment-77934 It is difficult to imagine that sequence of events resulting from anything other than deliberate acts by one or both of the pilots… and today it’s looking more like the copilot. Unless he left a note back home, we will probably never know why.

Please refresh my memory: Wasn’t there another pilot suicide-by-aircraft a couple of years ago?

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