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SilkAir Flight 185 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by a Boeing 737-300 from Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia to Changi Airport in Singapore that crashed into the Musi River near Palembang, Sumatra, on 19 December 1997, killing all 97 passengers and 7 crew members on board.
SilkAir 185: Pilot Suicide? is a 2006 documentary film by Hong Kong-based independent production company APV. Its subject is the crash of SilkAir Flight 185. The 60-minute documentary features interviews with air crash investigators who were involved in the case, relatives of those who were killed in the disaster, and lawyers who brought suit ...
Flight 185 may refer to: ... SilkAir 185: Pilot Suicide?, a 2006 documentary about the above noted 1997 crash; All pages with titles containing Flight 185
Hicks died at age 29 on 19 December 1997 aboard SilkAir Flight 185 when it crashed into the Musi River on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) expressed the likelihood that the crash was an act of suicide and mass murder by the troubled Singaporean pilot. All 97 passengers and 7 crew members ...
SilkAir Flight 185: Musi River, Palembang, Indonesia Boeing 737-300: Pilot suicide (disputed by NTSC) 104 Entered a high-speed vertical dive and broke up on its way down into the Musi River 1999-01-31 EgyptAir Flight 990: Atlantic Ocean, 100 km (62 mi) S of Nantucket Boeing 767-300ER: Pilot suicide (disputed) 217
FWIW, considering the resemblance of the final flight path to the two previous 737 accidents involving rudder hard-overs it is strange that the 'suicide' theory was even considered, and even stranger that it was clung to by some long after the majority of the 'evidence' against the accused pilot was apparently discredited.
The FBI was able to recover six deleted data points that had been stored by Microsoft Flight Simulator X program in the weeks before MH370 disappeared.
The United States National Transportation Safety Board, which had also assisted in the Flight 185 investigation, told the NTSC that the cause of the crash was a suicide by pilot (in this case the captain) via a letter sent on 11 December the same year. [4] [5]