Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt

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> Local Authorities are investigating whether one of the pilots stabbed the other one and are also looking into the possibility that one of the pilots attempted suicide by crashing the aircraft.

A suicide while taking hundreds of others with you too is a bit of a weird use of the word "suicide" though: it'd be not unlike saying "the person attempted suicide by detonating a bomb in a crowded market".

This is a common use of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack

It’s the emphasis - one is an attack that involves the death of the attacker, the other is someone killing themselves as the main goal.

“Taking everyone with you” is a perverse form of the latter perversion.

no it's not. That's called a "suicide ATTACK", not suicide.

Cabin crew got the cockpit door open, there were off duty pilots on board, and they landed without a rudder. What a crazy story.

The speculation and astroturfing has been interesting as well. There were reports that the crew were Ukrainian and Russian. Some comments on the avherald post are "must be Boeing's fault" (which I'm sure pleases Simon, the AirIndia truther).

> Cabin crew got the cockpit door open

Isn't this supposed to be nearly impossible these days? Or is the setup different for aircraft not flying to US airspace?

The Captain that was attacked by the copilot unlocked the door.[0]

[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/wounded-flyduba...

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