9 pilots intentionally crashed the aircraft

Sunday morning, 26 September 1976 pilot Vladimir Serkov sent the An-2 aircraft without passengers to a five-storey residential building located at Stepnaya street, house 43/1. The collision and resulting fire killed 11 people, including the pilot. During the investigation it was established that lived in the house wife Serkova, which shortly before the tragedy left him and took the baby.

Suicide among pilots, though rare, but still happen. Over the last 30 years, only in the US at least 44 of the pilot tried to commit suicide, intentionally sending their aircraft in the ground. According to the investigation the National transportation safety Board (NTSB), all pilots suicides were men and most of them were acutely conscious of parting with the girls or wives or they had problems with the law.

Andreas Lubitz, the Germanwings flight 9525

1. Andreas Lubitz

The data of the transponder of the aircraft showed that the autopilot was programmed to drop to 30 meters. The attention of investigators focused on the 27-year-old second pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had locked himself in the cockpit with a clear intention to send the plane into the ground.

German Bild published transcripts of negotiations of pilots of the flight, from which it is clear that shortly after takeoff Lubitz was left in the cabin alone. Captain Patrick Soundengineer complained that did not manage to go to the bathroom before takeoff and after the occupation of echelon and the standard check-Andreas Lubitz told the captain: "you Can go now." Soundengineer gave him control of the aircraft and left the cabin.

Sometime later on the recording you hear a loud Bang, and then the cry of the captain: "Open the door, for God's sake!" After the screams go bump presumably a crowbar or an axe at the door. The plane continues to decline, sound system automatic warnings: "the Earth, rise!" The captain once again trying to shout: "Open the damn door!" — behind the screams of passengers. Finally, the wing of the Airbus touches the mountains, and the recorder records the sound of the destruction of the aircraft.

The exact motives of Lubitch is still not established, however, the German investigators said that the pilot was concealed from the airline about your illness, and in the day of the disaster at his apartment found a torn sick leave. Andreas was very concerned about the deterioration of vision and highly experienced separation from his girlfriend. Also, the doctors confirmed that the pilot completed a course of psychotherapy to obtain a license.

Lubitz was the annual medical examination last summer. The official representative of Lufthansa, whose subsidiary is Germanwing, said that such surveys do not include psychological testing of pilots.

Jamil El Battuti, EgyptAir flight 990 (1991)

2. Broken "Boeing-767" EgyptAir

The co-pilot of flight Jamil El Battuti had full control of the aircraft at the moment when he bent down to 40 degrees. To such conclusion came the national safety Board at the end of the investigation. Also, according to the voice recorder of flight when the captain El-Habashi returned to the cockpit, he unsuccessfully tried to stop the decline of the plane, but El Battuti prevented this sharp shutting down the engines.

After examining the findings of the Committee of investigation of civil aviation of Egypt, the American journalist William Languish wrote: "the population of this country is a completely different way of thinking. It seemed to me that they knew that El Battuti committed suicide. But they pursued their goals, their insights and reports dictated from above, and this country is very autocratic power and unquestioning obedience to superiors. He entered the order, perhaps even from the President Mubarak, and they could not admit that El Battuti deliberately drove the plane into the water. Therefore, they insisted on technical problems".

Herminio DOS Santos Fernandes, flight 470 "Mozambique airlines" (2013)

3. Broken "Embraer-190" "Mozambique airlines"

29 Nov 2013 flight TM470 crashed in the swamps of the national Park Bwabwata during regular flight to Angola. 27 passengers were killed from Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, France, Brazil and China, as well as all six crew members.

DOS Santos Fernandes locked himself in the cockpit, did not respond to warning signals to onboard systems and is not allowed a second pilot back until Embraer 190 collided with the ground. Three on-Board recorders recorded manually change the height from 11 000 to 180 meters, and then below the horizon, the speed of the aircraft was also changed three times. Brake flaps were fully released and remained in this position until the end, and this means that the captain disconnected the autopilot and completely controlled aircraft before the collision. However, his motives remain unknown.

MC Wai Ming, SilkAir flight 185 (1997)

4. "Boeing-737", crashed on the island of Sumatra

The national security Committee on transport led the investigation along with the Indonesian authorities. The Commission found that in a steep dive, the aircraft was sent himself TSU Wai Ming. The investigation revealed serious financial problems of the captain, he took out a mortgage and just before the last flight lost on the stock exchange a large sum of money, and insured his life to save his family from ruin in case of death or disability. Insurance came into force on December 19 — the day of the crash.

Chris Fatso, the incident "air Botswana" (1999)

5. A broken plane of the airline "air Botswana"

Fatso took off at the airport name Seretse ham, and hovered over him for nearly two hours. He contacted the Manager at the radio and said, "I'm going to kill myself".

The pilot demanded that he be allowed to speak with the Vice President of Botswana Ian Khama and, according to General Manager of "air Botswana" Joshua Gailforce, had intended to fly the plane directly to the office of the Vice President. Thus Fatso wanted to settle accounts with the company. Dispatchers were able to convince the pilot that there are innocent people, and then Fatso sent aircraft to two other ATR-42 standing on the runway.

Fatso was dismissed from the company for health reasons and sat behind the wheel illegally. "He was written off on the ground, as the doctors "air Botswana" considered him incompetent," said John Williams, commercial Director of the national carrier. According to other sources, Fatso repeatedly warned the authorities of the airport, he was going to commit suicide.

After this incident, the fleet of "air Botswana" was virtually destroyed. The airline had only one plane BAe-146, which at that time stood on the repair.

Seiji Katagiri, flight 350 "Japanese airlines" (1982)

6. Aircraft Japan airlines, crashed in Tokyo Bay

As it turned out during the investigation, at the time of landing Katagiri was in a bad state, and shouted loudly in the cockpit. He switched the traction on two of the three engines in a suicide attempt. The co-pilot and flight engineer tried to stop it and return control. However, despite all their efforts, the plane suddenly lost most of the lifting force and crashed into Tokyo Bay, it reached 300 meters from the runway.

Katagiri was the first who managed to escape from a sinking aircraft; to avoid responsibility, he told the rescuers that works as an office worker.

Later it became known that Katagiri suffered from hallucinations and depression during the flight. He once called the police to his house in the suburbs of Tokyo, because they thought that he was being watched, but no listening devices and hidden cameras were found. Three doctors sent him for a psychiatric examination. In November 1980 he was recovering from psychosomatic disorders, but were again allowed to fly. Subsequently Katagiri has been accused of negligence and infliction of death by negligence, but the court found him guilty by reason of mental insanity.

Younes Hayati, flight 630 Royal Air Maroc (1994)

7. The crashed ATR-42−312

The second flight pilot sent a distress signal, but was not able to hold his colleague from suicide. The last words of the second pilot Sofia Fukugi before the moment of impact was recorded by the cockpit voice recorder, "Help! Help! Captain..."

The plane crashed in the Atlas mountains ten minutes after takeoff, the flight was made a flight from Agadir to Casablanca. Among the dead were a US citizen, Prince of Kuwait and eight Italians.

Brian George. Hedglin, the incident at the airport is St. George's (2012)

8. The Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft

In the report of the police investigation stated that Hedglin started to run, but the rise was not held because of the failure of the brakes chassis. The plane swept across the lane and stopped. Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft touched the wing of the terminal building, demolished the fence and crushed half a dozen cars. Eyewitnesses said that while the ship was in motion, the pilot left the cockpit to the salon and shot himself in the head.

Hedglin was suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend. Cristina Cornejo, 39, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in his apartment in Colorado springs. Both of them, and Brian Hedglin, and Christina Cornejo, served in the National guard of Colorado.

Vladimir Serkov, the incident at the airport of the North (1976)

9. Residential building suffered from the aircraft An-2

An-2 crashed into the five-storey building between the third and fourth floor next to the stairs, breaking a hole in the wall with a diameter of about two meters. The collision caused a fire that killed himself Serkov and 4 other inhabitant of this house.

During the investigation it became clear that lived in the house ex-wife Serkova with their child. Apparently, the pilot decided to commit suicide and at the same time to take revenge on my ex-wife. However, neither her nor anyone else who had that attitude to Serkovo, at that moment in the house was not.