Originally Posted by
Jagwar
Wageslave: Not amusing at all really - the obvious point is that we cannot any longer suppose that all flight crew, cabin crew and passengers had self preservation as a given. This kind of discussion would have been unbelievable 30 years ago.
It wouldn't have been completely unbelievable 30 years ago. 1982 had JAL 350, which was a clear case of "suicide by pilot".