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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by Abyssian@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Better than some suicidal pilots

Is this a common occurrence?

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

It isn’t what I would call “common”, but it happens: Suicide by aircraft

Most of those are the pilot crashing alone, but there have been some high-profile crashes of commercial flights that have either been confirmed or are strongly suspected to have been intentional, like EgyptAir 990, Germanwings 9525, and SilkAir 185. The mysteriously missing MH370 was also likely an intentional act.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

I wouldn't call it common but there's been enough for a Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_aircraft