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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 ...
I am really not sure that the causes listed are 100% correct. For anyone who watched the episode of MayDay (Air Crash Investigation) about this incident, I believe it was eventually discovered that there was a fault in the servo valve that could have been severe enough to have caused the rudder to jam or malfunction, in fact IIRC Parker-Hannifin where taken to court and the inditement against ...
This category lists airliners which are known or suspected to have been deliberately crashed in an act of murder-suicide.The perpetrator(s) in this list have been driven by one or more of a limited set of motivators; this list represents crashes carried out by suicidal or mentally ill flight crew member(s), or hijacker(s) or other attacker(s) among the passengers.
The flight data recorder and CVR have never been recovered. Several possible explanations for the disappearance of the aircraft have been offered. A leading theory amongst experts is that either the pilot or the co-pilot committed an act of murder–suicide. [53] A Canadian air crash investigator also believes the crash was a murder-suicide. [54]
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.
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
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.