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6 times commercial pilots suspected of plane crash!
The Pilots who have been suspected of downing their own planes as as a result of mental illness or in order to take revenge! Following are some significant crashes occurred in the past few decades, due to the mistake of commercial pilot!
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Japan Airlines Flight 350
Feb. 9, 1982, a Japan Airlines flight traveling from Fukuoka to Tokyo dove into Tokyo Bay Among the 166 passengers and eight crew, 24 died. Following the accident, Katagiri, one of the first people to take a rescue boat, reportedly told rescuers that he was an office worker, to avoid being identified as the captain. Katagiri was later found to be suffering from a mental illness prior to the incident, which resulted in a decision that he was not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Royal Air Maroc Flight 360
Flight 630 was a scheduled flight from Agadir, Morocco to Casablanca using an ATR 42 aircraft. The commission that investigated the crash determined that the ATR 42's autopilot was intentionally disconnected by the aircraft's pilot, 32-year-old Younes Khayati, who then deliberately crashed the aircraft. A flight union disputed the suicide explanation.
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SilkAir Flight 185
Aug. 21, 1994, RAM flight 630 was flying from Agadir to Casablanca, Morocco, when the plane nosedived into the Atlas Mountains about 10 minutes after takeoff. Investigators later determined that the pilot, Tsu Way Ming, intentionally disconnected the cockpit voice recorder before sending the Boeing 737 into a devastating nosedive.
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Air Botswana
Oct. 11, 1999, an Air Botswana pilot took off from Gabarone in a ATR-42 with no passengers. the pilot told the control tower that he intended to kill himself and then flew around for almost two hours. Later he crashed the aircraft into two other planes on the ground, ending up killing himself.
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Egypt Air 990
Oct. 31, 1999, an EgyptAir plane traveling from New York to Cairo crashed into the ocean near Nantucket, Massachusetts. The crash killed all 217 people on board. the aircraft started descending while one pilot, Captain Ahmed el-Habashi, was in the bathroom. The co-pilot, Gamil el-Batouty, repeatedly yelled, 'I rely on God' as he forced the plane to dive. Habashi returned to the cockpit and struggled to save the plane, at one point yelling, 'What is this? What is this? Did you shut the engines?'.U.S. authorities concluded that the crash was not an accident, but Egyptian authorities said Batouty was not responsible.
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Mozambique Airlines TM470
Nov. 29, 2013, a Mozambique Airlines flight crashed into the southwestern corner of Mozambique, killing all 33 on board. In circumstances eerily similar to what investigators are currently speculating about the Germanwings flight, data recordings indicated that TM470's co-pilot had left the cockpit to use the bathroom, and returned to find himself locked out by the remaining pilot. Locked in the cockpit alone, the experienced captain set the plane to descend to below ground level from a 38,000 feet cruising altitude, idling the engines and setting them to maximum speed. Voice recordings indicate that in TM470's final seconds, someone was pounding on the locked cockpit door.
