[stall84]

This had all the tone from the outset to just be narrowly focussed on this crash-investigation alone, but the writer did dedicate a paragraph to Egyptair Flight 990 from 1999.. An incident that really was one of the first modern airline pilot-suicide's that has never (The NTSB's conclusion) been agreed upon by Egypt. And in the past couple of decades that number has risen at an alarming pace (LAM Mozambique Flight 470 2013, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 2014, Germanwings Flight 9525 2015) < That extremely frightening and tight grouping of incidents seems to have been followed by a few years of normalcy. Then most recently the China Eastern Flight 5735 that China is still apparently working on a report for, but don't expect much in the way of admission on China's part, of course. But at any rate, there is a noticeable problem in the corps of pilots being selected to fly for several airlines, even really good airlines.

[robocat]

Suicide is more common than we measure and can be impetuous:

  Three days after a publicized suicide, automobile fatalities increase by 31%. The more the suicide is publicized, the more the automobile fatalies increase. The age of the drivers is significantly correlated with the age of the person described in the suicide story. Single-car accidents increase more than other types just after the publicized suicide.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2778220

[coredog64]

For political reasons SilkAir 185 was ruled inconclusive, but it was almost certainly pilot suicide. Similar to the earlier Egyptair case, the Indonesian authorities were very hostile to the evidence that pointed in that direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185