On Tue, 20 May 2014 06:55:42 -0700, Robert Green
wrote:

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The most difficult part of the suicide scenario is that even
Shakespeare's
often long-winded dramatic characters got it over relatively quickly.
People who survived jumping off the Golden Gate bridge change their minds
half way down. Search for the 2003 New Yorker article about Golden Gate
Bridge suicide jumpers. It's very enlightening.
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Complicating are economic pressures:
Plane failed == extremely costly liability.
Pilot Error == no liability.

And from experience having a pilot friend accused of fuel exhaustion when
it was a casting flaw in the carburator suddenly appearing where he was
'guilty until proven innocent'; you'll see more Pilot Errors causing
crashes than mechanical failures.