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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 ...
Impact of two kamikazes on the USS Bunker Hill. During World War II, the Russian aviator Nikolai Gastello was the first Soviet pilot credited with a (later disputed) "fire taran" in a suicide attack by an aircraft on a ground target, although his aircraft had been shot down and was in a rapid partially controllable descent. [9]
SilkAir Flight 185, crashed on 19 December 1997; ... See also. SilkAir 185: Pilot Suicide?, a 2006 documentary about the above noted 1997 crash;
In aviation, a graveyard spiral is a type of dangerous spiral dive entered into accidentally by a pilot who is not trained or not proficient in flying in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). [1] Other names for this phenomenon include suicide spiral, deadly spiral, death spiral and vicious spiral. [2]
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.
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.
The evidence and research by the NTSB is far more convincing. Their investigation proved that the only way that the plane could have followed the downward profile that it did, was if a pilot deliberately pushed forward on the yoke and held it in that position, until the plane's crashing was assured. It was a case of pilot suicide.