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Old 26th Mar 2015, 21:00
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any psychologists here, why is it that we now have several pilot suicides with many pax killed yet I have never heard of a bus driver doing a suicide and killing the passengers along the way?
You don't need psychology to answer this - merely physics.

Kinetic energy increases as the square of the velocity. There is every chance that a bus crash at 50 mph is survivable. An aircraft, at ~500 mph, has 100 times the kinetic energy, and if flown deliberately and directly at a mountainside, has no chance of being survivable.

Hence, there is a guarantee that you cannot be held responsible for your actions post-facto. A bus crash may only leave you badly injured - and still having to face the music.
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