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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 26, 2015 11:36:14 GMT
I appreciate this has nothing to do with cricket but conspiracy theories rage on Twitter this morning about the Alps plane crash after alleged leaked information gained from the 'blackbox', stating the co-pilot could not get back into the cockpit after leaving for a toilet break. It is alleged the door was jammed, perhaps purposefully, as some conspiracists are suggesting. Twitter is having a field day suggesting either pilot suicide or that a terrorist had taken over the cockpit and the crash had nothing to do with plane malfunction. Back in March 2002, the highly respected and renowned investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, wrote an article for 'The Guardian' stating that the pilot of 'EgyptAir Flight 990', a plane which crashed off New England in 1999, killing 217 people, deliberately crashed the plane as an act of revenge. www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/16/duncancampbellCampbell's investigation 13 years ago has the chilling hallmarks of this week's crash. Pilot suicide may be on the increase and certainly could account for the lost Malaysian airline over the Indian Ocean a year ago. How will this potential bombshell, if true, affect the flying industry in the future? Will all pilots have to go through monthly and highly stringent mental check-ups from now on? Mind you, this is just a conspiracy theory. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 26, 2015 15:31:35 GMT
A new thread has been created for me by moderator1 - I am honoured - after taking the previous post on the 'Wicked Cricket' blog and transferring it here. Since that post, the Alps crash story has moved on with lightning speed since the world press conference two hours ago and the Twitter conspiracists have been proven correct. The co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, did commit suicide although authorities are calling it 'a voluntary action' and 'a homicide' of 150 people. Andreas Lubitz The obvious question: How many other 'pilot suicides' have occurred during the last 50 years? An aviation expert admitted on Radio 5 Live a few hours ago that in November 2013, there was a carbon copy occurrence in Mozambique. A growing number suggest the Malaysian airlines disappearance over the Indian Ocean could also be a pilot suicide. And as Duncan Campbell states in his 2002 'Guardian' article, the 1999 Egyptian crash killing 217 people, was due to revenge/suicide. That is four potential or known cases in the last 16 years. How many more are there? Understandably, the airline industry must feel incredibly uncomfortable discussing such matters, not only because of the potential financial damage caused to their business, but the realisation there is little they can do to stop such 'suicides'. The pilot of the 'Germanwings' plane, Andreas Lubitz, responsible for voluntarily crashing the aircraft, was from all accounts, in good spirits with no known mental health issues. How disturbing is that? One must congratulate both the German and French authorities for bringing this matter to the world so quickly and honestly, although a cynical conspiracist might suggest, the reason why the information was leaked in the first place was because certain authorities wanted to keep the finding quiet. Recent Airline Crashes Thought to be Caused by Deliberate Pilot Action29 November 2013: A flight between Mozambique and Angola crashed in Namibia, killing 33 people. Initial investigation results suggested the
accident was deliberately carried out by the captain shortly after the first officer (also known as the co-pilot) had left the flight deck.31 October 1999: An EgyptAir Boeing 767 went into a rapid descent 30 minutes after taking off from New York, killing 217 people. An investigation
suggested that the crash was caused deliberately by the relief first officer but the evidence was not conclusive.19 December 1997: More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 travelling from Indonesia to Singapore crashed. The pilot - suffering from
"multiple work-related difficulties" - was suspected of switching off the flight recorders and intentionally putting the plane into a dive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32063587But there is another area of travel which society is finding difficult to face up to as well and that is 'suicide' via voluntary car crashes. There appear to be growing numbers of cases coming to light where innocent drivers are being targeted and driven in to by suicidal people. Here is one example. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510024/Family-killed-suicidal-driver-deliberately-crashed-car.html |
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Post by leedsgull on Mar 26, 2015 16:29:20 GMT
These dreadful incidents reinforce my belief that there should be a legitimate way to end one's life without involving innocent bystanders. People are "forced" to jump under trains in their desperation to end their lives. This must be harrowing for the poor train drivers and awful for those left to clean up afterwards. A sanitised end of life alternative needs to be introduced.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 26, 2015 18:21:32 GMT
lg, I completely agree with you. Humans are kinder to animals than themselves. Assisted suicide and euthanasia, surely, must come in the future. The idea behind the film 'Soylent Green' - that at a certain age people are offered the opportunity for euthanasia - makes sense to me. Although, forget the human food part! Imho, the present system is barbaric and remains in the dark ages. Is it still the influence of religion? I don't know but the practice of assisted suicide in extreme cases of ill-health is surely the way to go first and then later as society accepts this, euthanasia can then develop as a practice. No political party would dare go within a mile of this issue now, yet the amount of money the NHS would save, as one example, could be huge. You view all the suicides occurring around the world with sadness and horror. For example, in 2013 there were over 41,000 successful suicides in America alone (firearm suicides, not surprisingly, being the most common form). I believe the WHO worldwide figure is nearer to 1m a year. In fact, their figures are astonishing. Suicide rates have "increased" by 60% since WW2. Suicide is now among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 (male and female). Rates among young people have been increasing to such an extent that they are now the group at highest risk in a third of all countries. What does that say about our present society? www.befrienders.org/suicide-statistics |
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