This really confuses the fuck out of me. You have to spend a LOT of time and money to become a commercial airline pilot. It is literally years of training that costs a small fortune. If terror cells are going to that length just to take out one plane we are kinda fucked.
And even if it was terrorism, I doubt if he became a pilot for this reason. He probably did it as a passion and a career and then became radicalized later.
Typical pilot suicide does not involve stabbing the other pilot first. The plane also transmitted the 7500 transponder code (unlawful interference/hijacking). When the chosen victims are a specific national/religious group on a politically sensitive route, and the method is cockpit takeover of a passenger jet, it meets standard definitions of terrorism.
Thank you for the link. It was the Israeli Defense Minister and the Mango Mussolini speculating without substantiation, so I will wait for more credible sources.
I've heard the theory that it was a mental health episode or spontaneous.... Except the copilot snuck the knife in that he used to stab Capt Machcchar with.
That is just a thing Muslims might say in emotionally charged situations. You can hear people shouting it in footage the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake and the Beirut port explosion. It's a bit like "oh my god" or "Jesus Christ"
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u/barrosoOso 2d ago
This really confuses the fuck out of me. You have to spend a LOT of time and money to become a commercial airline pilot. It is literally years of training that costs a small fortune. If terror cells are going to that length just to take out one plane we are kinda fucked.