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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 ...
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 ...
The United States Air Force declared his death a suicide because no other generally accepted hypothesis explains the events [32] [33] [34] Dec 19, 1997: Pilot Commercial flight: SilkAir Flight 185: 104: The United States' NTSB ruled the incident a suicide, but the Indonesian NTSC listed the cause as undetermined. A private investigation blamed ...
19 December: SilkAir Flight 185, operated by a Boeing 737-300 plunged into the Musi River in Sumatra during a routine flight from Jakarta to Singapore, killing all 104 people on board. The US NTSB concluded that the crash resulted from an intentional act by a pilot, most likely the captain.
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
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
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]