2026-10-09
19 分钟Just a heads up, today's episode discusses suicide and plane crashes.
Please take care when listening.
Last week, on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, there was an altercation in the cockpit.
The plane plunged 16,000 feet in under a minute.
The initial reports suggested that one of the pilots tried to crash the plane,
or at least put it into this dive for whatever reason.
Middle Eastern authorities say they suspect the first officer
tried to crash the plane on purpose in an attempted terror attack.
Other pilots who happened to be on the Fly Dubai flight
were able to regain control of the plane and land it safely.
Our colleague Andrew Tangle covers aviation, and the Fly Dubai incident got him thinking.
It immediately triggered a thought that, oh, well,
here's another case of potentially intentional crash that we've been hearing about.
For the past year, Andrew's been reporting on a persistent problem in the airline industry.
You have these spikes every few years in aviation fatalities, not for bird strikes,
not for loss of engines or some sort of mechanical problem, accidentally flying into terrain.
It's a safety concern that is often whispered about, but rarely openly discussed.
If the suspicions are correct, then it's this phenomenon of a pilot,
someone in the cockpit, intentionally killing themselves and everyone on board.
In other words, rogue pilots crashing planes on purpose.