Originally Posted by
Lookleft
So if all the previous decompression/hypoxia incidents quoted support the theory of slow pilot incapacitation, why doesn't Silk Air, Egypt Air and German Wings support the theory that the pilot was responsible for the aircraft tracking out over the Indian Ocean until it run out of fuel?
To this day the Egyptians refuse to admit Egyptair was a deliberate act, the Indonesians refuse to admit Silkair was a deliberate act, and the Chinese will probably never admit China Eastern was probably a deliberate act. There's a lot of aversion to admitting one of your own is responsible for that kind of act in those cultures. But also more broadly in aviation, pilots seem to be better at dealing with technical things over personal things. We want there to be a technical cause as we can understand it a lot better than dealing with human psychology.