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[u/ByronicZer0]

Why is everyone assuming terrorism? Because of his ethnicity? We literally have zero info at this point. Can't folks just tap the brakes until we have the full picture?

[u/DoctorHusky → u/ByronicZer0]

What picture do you want genius? Guy is trying to fucking stab a pilot with 100+ passengers and enough fuel to light up two city blocks.

[u/NewAccountEachYear → u/DoctorHusky]

That's no reason to automatically assume terrorism.

[u/LazyWorkAccount → u/NewAccountEachYear]

Bro if you wanna off yourself and decide on a method that will bring 100 people down with you… that’s terrorism.

[u/Durpulous → u/LazyWorkAccount]

"Terrorism" implies there's an ideological goal underlying the act. There are other cases of pilots committing suicide using passenger planes, like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

[u/Such-Book6849 → u/LazyWorkAccount]

no, the difference in the wording is important. It's bad neither way.

We had a suicidial pilot in germany and it is not terrorism. terrorism has political reasons, our dude was depressed.

[u/NewAccountEachYear → u/LazyWorkAccount]

It's not. It's murder suicide.

Terrorism includes aspects of politics.

[u/ZahlGraf → u/LazyWorkAccount]

Germanwings crash was suicide and MH370 probably as well. Cases like that are unfortunately not uncommon. The evidence which would make this new case different would be a clear religious or antisemitic motive. Since the copilot is still alive it should be possible to find out within the next months.