"If Zahari's aim was to hide the plane forever, to punish the Malaysian government or whatever, he might have seen the prospect of his own death as collateral damage. During times of war, men sometimes do things even when their death is inevitable; we regard them as brave warriors. One clinical psychologist talking about his experience of typical suicidal patients is irrelevant, there is nothing "usual" about this case - it is weird, whatever the "final" explanation is presented to us."
but he wouldn't have to kill himself nor anyone else, landing on one of australian islands would do a job
when we are at that, have they searched the northern areas at all?