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Yes. Look up the German Wings case, flight 9525.

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.

And just like school shootings, that German pilot studied MH370. The MH370 pilot likely did the same thing. He was separated from his wife & at his house they found he practiced the crash route on Microsoft Flight simulator.

Really? I didn’t know that part. I knew that psychiatrists had told him to stop flying while things were so bad, which he obviously ignored.

I didn’t know he had prepared like that though.

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