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Raphael Warshaw wrote:

The student believes that this was a deliberate(and successful)suicide
attempt, not just garden-variety stupidity.

Well, some students have made me want to wring their necks,
but always on the ground, where it's easier to get to their wallets.
Er, just kidding...

From being around aviation a while, student or instructor suicides with
pax are quite rare. Like 1 in a million flights. Solo, it
seems to be a bit more common. There's a couple of slow descents
way out over the ocean that look pretty contrived in the accident reports...



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