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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 ...
SilkAir 185: Pilot Suicide?, a 2006 documentary about the above noted 1997 crash All pages with titles containing Flight 185 Topics referred to by the same term
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 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]
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.