Originally Posted by
ferry pilot
Suicide is neither foreseeable nor preventable. It is a fact of life. Any solution will have to be technical, and that means producing airplanes that cannot be deliberately flown into the ground.
How soon depends on the amount of press this subject generates. But it will happen.
Impossible.
That means you would lose your ability to operate the aircraft controls.
If you shut down both engines over the atlantic, you're in for a dive : can the manufacturer prevent the pilot from shutting down the engines? They wouldn't be able to manage an engine fire..