Pilot Suicide
02/09/1982	Tokyo, Japan	Japan Air Lines	Pilot engaged number 2 and 3 engine thrust reversers in flight. The first officer and flight engineer were able to partially regain control of the aircraft.
08/21/1994	Near Agadir, Morocco	Royal Air Maroc	Crashed intentionally by pilot by disconnecting the autopilot and deliberately causing the plane to crash.
11/29/2013	Bwabwata National Park, Nambia	Mozambique Airline	The pilot intentionally crashed the aircraft after the co-pilot was locked out of the cockpit.
03/08/2014	Indiian Ocean	Malaysia Airlines	An investigation by the Malaysian government asserted that the plane was manually flown off course. Several possible explanations for the disappearance of the aircraft have been offered. A leading theory amongst experts is that either the pilot or the co-pilot committed an act of murder-suicide however, it has never been proven.
03/24/2015	Digne-Les-Bains, Fran	Germanwings	Pilot deliberately flew the plane into the ground.
03/21/2022	Wuzhou, Guangxi, China	China Eastern Airlines	Some investigators believe the airliner may have been intentionally crashed.
12/19/1997	Near Palembang, Indonesia	Slik Air	The United States' NTSB ruled the incident a suicide, but the Indonesian  listed the cause as undetermined. A private investigation blamed a flaw in the plane's rudder.
10/31/1999	Off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts	Egyptair	After the captain left the cockpit, relief first officer turned off the autopilot and engines causing the plane to go into a dive and crash into the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. NTSB concluded that the crash was a suicide while the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority blamed a fault in the elevator control system.

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