There are numerous cases in the USA where a disgruntled worker shoots his workmates, knowing that he is likely to be killed by police if he doesnt drop his weapon.
Perhaps this accident fits into the far more common disgruntled worker categorey than suicide with mass murder?
He had told passengers "he was going to die with them by driving the bus into Kazinga,"
The above is a quote from a disgrunted bus driver who had been sacked for being drunk. Fortunately his attempt to crash a hijacked bus into a crocodile infested river was thwarted.
This occured in Feb 2015 and is the only incident I can find of a brief trawl of the net of a bus driver wanting to commit suicide and take passengers with him.
There are numerous reports of bus drivers who suicide but few if any have apparently inflicted harm on their passengers whilst doing so, apart from this recent disgruntled worker.
If the A320 and other flying incidents were not disgruntled worker syndrome, I wonder why pilot suicides seem to be in a categery all of their own where their suicide kills others?
Has this rare phenomena of killing passengers been researched by aviation industry to explore both its cause and prevention?
If not why not?
Mickjoebill