Silk Air Crash Caused By Captain's Manual Setting

Singapore Airlines subsidiary SilkAir said the pilot in command of flight MI 185, which crashed in 1997, faced personal problems and that the Boeing 737-300 was manually set to crash. The statement backs up theories that the pilot used the crash to commit suicide. Captain Tsu Way Ming "was facing...

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