Not just a simple murder/suicide, either, which frequently involves people who know each other. This is flat-out mass murder, terrorism, call it what you will. Killing hundreds of strangers would rank you at the top of any serial killer list.
I think if you do this servile type of job for years, the passengers become the cattle the rest of of the industry treats them as. My guess (but I’m am not a suicide contemplating jumbo liner pilot), is that any signal from those doing this is against the job/industry itself as the stressor in the pilot’s life.
Perhaps we should avoid practices that dehumanize the pilot’s relationship with the cargo, er, uh, passengers. Maybe the stats say otherwise, but you don’t hear about a lot of tourist ride pilots (bush, etc) doing the in flight nose dive.
I’m curious how many pilots take their lives in more traditional means (e.g. just themselves).
In short one pilot waited for the other to leave the cockpit, locked the door, and deliberately crashed the plane.
He was so suicidal and distraught (thought he was going blind and thus would lose his job) he was willing to do it.
If you read the full story it’s even sadder.
I didn’t know he had prepared like that though.