re: Egyptian Air plane disappears

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I always thought that was a very strange move to turn off the transponders. I still think that plane is in Siberia in a hangar waiting to be used for something worse.

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I don't think it was anything that nefarious. I think it was nothing more than a suicidal pilot (could have been either pilot or co-pilot) that didn't want his act discovered. Turn off the transponder, disappear over the Pacific way off the scheduled route, and no CVR or flight data is ever found to tell what really happened.

Suicide by commercial aircraft isn't exactly unheard of:

Japan Airlines Flight 350, 1982
Pacific Southwest Flight 1771, 1987
EgyptAir Flight 990, 1991
Federal Express Flight 705, 1994
Royal Air Maroc Flight 630, 1994
SilkAir Flight 185, 1997
Mozambique Airlines Flight 470, 2013
GermanWings Flight 9525, 2015