SilkAir Flight 185 - Pilot Suicide?

[kryonlight]

Seeing this documentary 16 years after the event sends chills down my spine.

The plane went into a supersonic dive (engines at full thrust) with almost no bodily remains found.

[video=youtube;Ig9LE0Vp1YM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig9LE0Vp1YM[/video]

According to several reports, he took out a life insurance policy worth several million US dollars just days before the crash. Usually, insurance companies will not pay out to a beneficiary family in the event of a suicide if the policy is less than a year old.

If the methodical Tsu knew of this condition, were the FDR and CVR turned off to prevent investigators from understanding what was going on in the cockpit?

Tsu's background was military. The Air Force had been a large part of his life since the age of 19. Eventually rising to become an aerobatic fighter pilot in Singapore's elite Black Knights, he had clocked more than 4,000 hours in military cockpits. Many of those hours were spent pulling gravity-defying manoeuvres in Skyhawks on missions through Asia. He had won high praise in an air-to-ground bombing trial, graduated top of his class in a pilot attack instructor course, and earned the respect and loyalty of his Air Force peers. But his service was not without tragedy. While flying a single-seat Skyhawk in formation with four others during a training run in the Philippines in 1979, disaster struck.

''They were getting experience at flying in mountainous regions in cloud,'' said a former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot who knew three of the officers. By a stroke of good fortune, Tsu had been forced to pull out of the formation and return to base because of mechanical problems, shortly before the other three flew into a mountain. All were killed. The date was December 19. Eighteen years to the day later, Silkair Flight MI 185 crashed in Sumatra.

Silkair crash: A killer in the cockpit?
http://www.singapore-window.org/81003sc1.htm

'Suicidal' pilot may have killed 104 on crash jet
http://www.singapore-window.org/80311lon.htm

'Suicidal' pilot may have killed 104 on crash jet
http://www.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_aviation/Revised-MI185 Final Report (2001).pdf

How does it feel to die in a supersonic dive with your flesh, blood and bones evaporating?

 

[maxxi]

CRM and ex-mil do not mix well in cockpit.

 

[ChenHaoNan]

This is the one with Bonnie hicks on board ?

 

[ryutanahgou]

This is the one with Bonnie hicks on board ?

Yes I believed so.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

The story that won't be told.

Every major air crash in history has had its fair share of air time in the news networks, including full documentaries, exclusive interviews, thorough investigations, and people brought to justice. Not so for MI185. The lack of television and international media coverage is glaring. The whole investigation remains mired in opaqueness and lack of transparency. No high ranking investigator dares to put his foot forward and say his hypothesis is the right one.

The discrepencies are too so glaring they can even be seen by a man blind from birth. Planes don't drop out of mid air with no rhyme or reason and crash at full speed into the sea, and the only explanation offered apart from the suicide theory is some ridiculous nonsense about "O" rings and metal fatigue.

This is undoubtedly a cover up orchestrated by the Indonesian govt and possibly in cahoots with the SG govt.

 

[I_Hate_Pappies]

The story that won't be told.

Every major air crash in history has had its fair share of air time in the news networks, including full documentaries, exclusive interviews, thorough investigations, and people brought to justice. Not so for MI185. The lack of television and international media coverage is glaring. The whole investigation remains mired in opaqueness and lack of transparency. No high ranking investigator dares to put his foot forward and say his hypothesis is the right one.

The discrepencies are too so glaring they can even be seen by a man blind from birth. Planes don't drop out of mid air with no rhyme or reason and crash at full speed into the sea, and the only explanation offered apart from the suicide theory is some ridiculous nonsense about "O" rings and metal fatigue.

This is undoubtedly a cover up orchestrated by the Indonesian govt and possibly in cahoots with the SG govt.

Yes, i agree. This will not happen in Ang Moh country.

 

[Froggy]

The easiest thing to do is to put the blame on someone and best is sensationalize it. Aircraft companies, airline companies, governments are all very powerful entities. Afterall, dead man tell no tales, dead man cannot defend himself.

 

[cheesecake]

The truth will never be told but perhaps those who knew the pilot can shed some light on it.

 

[leetahbar]

in singapore, such tragedy is always covered up to save the embarrassment of the gahmen. if it happened in USA, u bet they dig up all the skeletons and sue SIA off their undies!!

 

[Deleted member 80916]

Is Richard Wicks, still alive ?

This is the one with Bonnie hicks on board ?

 

[laksaboy]

This is the one with Bonnie hicks on board ?

I miss her books.

 

[yinyang]

Speak of the devil. Just saw this breaking news, of lesser magnitude

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...es-with-building-at-Johannesburg-airport.html

 

[NoNewsGood]

So what is the "truth"? The plane was shot down?

 

[Sinkie]

The families were compensated....all of them.

 

[greedy and cunning]

what about this beast ?

FORMER Singapore Airlines steward Zaini Jeloni, who was jailed in a Cali- fornia prison for killing his female colleague, was freed on Monday morning here, but found himself sent promptly to another detention centre for deportation.

California Department of Corrections spokesman Terri Thornton told The Straits Times that he was placed in the custody of the United States Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) office.

It is understood that he is in detention at a southern California centre while his travel arrangements are being processed. That may take between two and 10 days.

Zaini, 32, was sent to a medium-security prison in Soledad, about three hours south of San Francisco, in 1997 after he was found guilty of causing the death of Taiwanese stewardess Chang Yu.

The two were members of the same Los Angeles-bound SIA flight crew in October 1995. The woman was on her first working flight after completing her training. It proved to be her last.

Colleagues reported her missing when she did not show up for her return flight.

She was found stran- gled and dumped in a closet in a Los Angeles hotel room.

Autopsy reports showed that she suffered heavy blows to the head; stomach and sexual injuries suggested that there had been rough sex.

Zaini was arrested in November 1995 and was extradited to the US to face charges of rape and murder.

He later struck a deal with US prosecutors and pleaded no contest to an amended charge of manslaughter.

Imprisoned for six years in 1997, he had his sentence backdated to the time he had spent in custody since 1995.

 

[looneytan]

I miss her books.

I miss her :(

 

[Papsmearer]

The story that won't be told.

Every major air crash in history has had its fair share of air time in the news networks, including full documentaries, exclusive interviews, thorough investigations, and people brought to justice. Not so for MI185. The lack of television and international media coverage is glaring. The whole investigation remains mired in opaqueness and lack of transparency. No high ranking investigator dares to put his foot forward and say his hypothesis is the right one.

The discrepencies are too so glaring they can even be seen by a man blind from birth. Planes don't drop out of mid air with no rhyme or reason and crash at full speed into the sea, and the only explanation offered apart from the suicide theory is some ridiculous nonsense about "O" rings and metal fatigue.

This is undoubtedly a cover up orchestrated by the Indonesian govt and possibly in cahoots with the SG govt.

Of course it was a cover up. In fact, the NTSB and the chief Indonesian Investigator Santoso Sayago both agreed it was controlled flight into terrain deliberately caused by the pilot. Sayago was overulled by his boss which changed the finding of the accident cause to inconclusive and undetermined. Even the NTSB in the US filed a protest when they found this out. The reason is clearly to absolve Silkair from having to pay a large settlement to its dead passengers and also to salvage the reputation of the airline. Sayago's boss claims that since the FDR and CVR stopped recording some seconds before the crash, no cause could be determined. But someone had to turn off both black boxes, right?

 

[Papsmearer]

The families were compensated....all of them.

That's bullshit. What do you call compensation? Silkair's pittance? In fact, the SIngapore high court dismissed the lawsuits of some of the victim's families.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

So what is the "truth"? The plane was shot down?

any regional general or politician killed ?

if yes, it was an assassination attempt disguised..........

happened in Africa, Sth America and Caucasus before........

 

[I_Hate_Pappies]

SilkAir is not that silky after all.