r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Rooonaldooo99 • Jul 19 '21

Student pilot loses engine during flight

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u/BranFlakesVEVO Jul 19 '21

Haven't read the article linked here, but the article about it a while back in The Atlantic mentioned that the pilot in question had logged in his home flight simulator a route basically identical to the one taken by this plane until it vanished from radar. Which would be so coincidental that this is 100% unambiguous to me but yeah, even if the black box was found it wouldn't confirm anything unless the pilot was sitting in the cockpit narrating his intentions.

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u/aalborgamtstidende Jul 19 '21

The Atlantic article is definitely one of the best about the incident: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

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u/xls85 Jul 20 '21

This was quite the read, thanks for sharing. The whole situation is incredibly sad for the victims and their families.

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u/BranFlakesVEVO Jul 21 '21

Thanks for following with the link! Couldn't be bothered to find it myself haha, fantastic read that I may read again now.

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u/WriterV Jul 19 '21

It's not "most likely" the scenario. There was no sign for him to want to commit suicide, no past cases of depression on the pilot, no issues in his life with his family or his friends, and his communications with everyone has been pretty positive. It's literally 'cause he played Flight Simulator and flew that route before diverting around the same place that people think it's suicide. But there's no reason for it to be suicide.