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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by card_zero on Saturday July 12, 2025 @01:22AM (#44539532)
Cutting the engines within seconds of leaving the ground doesn't fit suicide very well. I'd expect something more like flying into the side of a mountain or heading really far out into the Indian ocean until you vanish from radar and cause a big mystery.

For instance, you might deliberately kill yourself by driving your car really fast into something solid, but you probably wouldn't try to do that while backing out of the garage.

Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by coolspot on Saturday July 12, 2025 @01:31AM (#44539570)
I think it is opposite. Flying into a mountain & etc would require one pilot to somehow incapacitate another pilot. Cutting fuel off, if done on takeoff, is not recoverable (engines can’t relight and spin up quickly enough).
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by card_zero on Saturday July 12, 2025 @01:47AM (#44539638)
OK, that makes a kind of sense, altitude would spoil the plan, if a suicidal pilot's only plan was to cut the engines.
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by userbinator on Saturday July 12, 2025 @02:32AM (#44539834)
See Germanwings 9525 for an example of a conclusive suicide with no doubt from all the evidence.
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by card_zero on Saturday July 12, 2025 @02:35AM (#44539849)
See me obliquely referencing that with "flying into the side of a mountain".