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35. Murder-suicide plane crashes have killed over 600

BY FELICITY CAPON ON 3/27/15 AT 10:59 AM

Over 600 people have died as the result of commercial aircrafts being deliberately crashed by their pilots, in cases with striking similarities to the deliberate crash of Germanwings flight 4U 9525 into the French Alps on Tuesday, at the hands of 27-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.

Investigators concluded yesterday that the crash of the German airliner which killed all 150 on board was a deliberate act by the co-pilot - Lubitz had locked the pilot out of the cockpit before plunging the aircraft into the mountains ...

According to the Aviation Safety Network, six commercial planes since 1976, including Germanwings flight 4U 9525, are believed to have been intentionally crashed by pilots, resulting in the deaths of 605 people. This figure does not include the 239 fatalities of last year’s Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 as the accident is still under investigation.

In one case, a plane crash in Mozambique in 2013 that killed all 33 people on board, was intentionally crashed by the pilot. His co-pilot, like the captain in this week’s French Alps crash, had left the cockpit to go to the bathroom and then been locked out. According to one report, the pilot had been “very depressed” in the months leading to the crash, due to marital problems ...

http://www.newsweek.com/murder-suicide-plane-crashes-have-killed-over-600-317236