Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
If a fire like Egyptair's , the fuselage, under pressurization and flight loads would have failed quite quickly. I don't see it flying for hours.
If you look at the stats for air carrier accidents durn cruise flight, suicide or terrorism is foremost. Three suicides in the last 15 years--Egypt Air, SilkAir and LAM last year in Mozambique.
GF
I read a comment recently that pilot suicide in Silk Air has since been disproven, sorry i failed to note the source.
That being so I can only think of one airline pilot suicide being the JAL DC-8-62 which a co-pilot slammed into the sea short of a runway (Narita?) back in the late sixties (1968?)
The Egyptair flight 990 crash of 1999 was hotly disputed by Egyptian crash investigators and I have personally never accepted the NTSB findings from that crash. The Captain entered the cockpit and asked the co-pilot if he had closed the throttles... that and an uttered prayer are the only real proof. I believe electrical failure is another possibility.