Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt

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23 points•haunter•about 16 hours ago•3 comments•

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> Local Authorities are investigating whether one of the pilots stabbed the other one and are also looking into the possibility that one of the pilots attempted suicide by crashing the aircraft.

A suicide while taking hundreds of others with you too is a bit of a weird use of the word "suicide" though: it'd be not unlike saying "the person attempted suicide by detonating a bomb in a crowded market".

makeitdoubleabout 14 hours ago

This is a common use of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack

bombcarabout 12 hours ago

It’s the emphasis - one is an attack that involves the death of the attacker, the other is someone killing themselves as the main goal.

“Taking everyone with you” is a perverse form of the latter perversion.

yehosefabout 10 hours ago

no it's not. That's called a "suicide ATTACK", not suicide.

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