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23-12-2013, 01:50 PM
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SilkAir Flight 185 - Pilot Suicide?
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Seeing this documentary 16 years after the event sends chills down my spine. The plane went into a supersonic dive (engines at full thrust) with almost no bodily remains found. Quote: According to several reports, he took out a life insurance policy worth several million US dollars just days before the crash. Usually, insurance companies will not pay out to a beneficiary family in the event of a suicide if the policy is less than a year old. If the methodical Tsu knew of this condition, were the FDR and CVR turned off to prevent investigators from understanding what was going on in the cockpit? Quote: Tsu's background was military. The Air Force had been a large part of his life since the age of 19. Eventually rising to become an aerobatic fighter pilot in Singapore's elite Black Knights, he had clocked more than 4,000 hours in military cockpits. Many of those hours were spent pulling gravity-defying manoeuvres in Skyhawks on missions through Asia. He had won high praise in an air-to-ground bombing trial, graduated top of his class in a pilot attack instructor course, and earned the respect and loyalty of his Air Force peers. But his service was not without tragedy. While flying a single-seat Skyhawk in formation with four others during a training run in the Philippines in 1979, disaster struck. ''They were getting experience at flying in mountainous regions in cloud,'' said a former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot who knew three of the officers. By a stroke of good fortune, Tsu had been forced to pull out of the formation and return to base because of mechanical problems, shortly before the other three flew into a mountain. All were killed. The date was December 19. Eighteen years to the day later, Silkair Flight MI 185 crashed in Sumatra. Silkair crash: A killer in the cockpit? http://www.singapore-window.org/81003sc1.htm 'Suicidal' pilot may have killed 104 on crash jet http://www.singapore-window.org/80311lon.htm 'Suicidal' pilot may have killed 104 on crash jet http://www.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_av...t%20(2001).pdf How does it feel to die in a supersonic dive with your flesh, blood and bones evaporating? Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com. 
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