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I think the point is that the Pilot in the title of that graph implies an on-shift airline pilot choosing to crash the plane intentionally, not a terrorist killing the pilot and grabbing the controls.

I think they only take into account intentional crashes caused by the original pilot of the plane, not by hijackings.

9/11 is excluded from the stats because it was not the pilots that caused the crashes, but the hijackers.