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TacticalCoder • today at 12:25 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Local Authorities are investigating whether one of the pilots stabbed the other one and are also looking into the possibility that one of the pilots attempted suicide by crashing the aircraft.

A suicide while taking hundreds of others with you too is a bit of a weird use of the word "suicide" though: it'd be not unlike saying "the person attempted suicide by detonating a bomb in a crowded market".


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makeitdouble • today at 12:31 PM

This is a common use of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack