Intentional plane crashes by pilots would rank as the second-highest cause of aircraft deaths in the past decade if official statistics were kept.
For decades, commercial airline travel has gotten progressively safer. But one cause of death has stubbornly persisted: pilots who intentionallyPreliminary evidence suggests the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet in March might be the latest such tragedy, a person familiar with the investigation said. If confirmed, that would make it the fourth since 2013, bringing deaths in those crashes to 554.
’s disappearance over the Indian Ocean in 2014 found it was likely flown there on purpose, for example, but the Malaysian government’s report contains no information on who may have done so or why.The risk of dying on an airliner has declined significantly in recent decades as a result of innovations in safety equipment, aircraft reliability and pilot training.
Government authorities and Boeing have not announced any potential safety issues with the plane since then, suggesting no systemic faults have been uncovered. Preliminary information from the jet’s crash-proof data recorder indicates that someone in the cockpit initiated the dive, said a person familiar with the probe who wasn’t authorised to speak about it.China’s embassy in Washington did not respond directly to questions about whether the crash was intentional.
Four other intentional crashes occurred on airlines around the world before 2013, killing another 389 people, according to AviationSafetyNetwork and accident reports. The incidents don’t include terrorist acts, such as the planes that crashed on September 11, 2001. One idea – adding automated limits on a pilot’s actions in the cockpit – would require a dramatic shift in the philosophy of aviation safety.
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