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Thorsten Schwark1, Karsten Severin, Wolfgang Grellner
1Department of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Strasse 12, 24105 Kiel, Germany. ts@uk-sh.de
Abstract:
In 2006, 67 persons were killed in aircraft accidents in Germany and involving German aircrafts abroad. In spite of extensive investigation of each aircraft accident, there are no reliable data as to the number of suicides by aircraft. We report on a 50-year-old man who committed suicide by willfully crashing his Beech "Sierra" aircraft minutes after take off from an airport close to the town of Rendsburg, Germany. Before killing himself, the intoxicated pilot had sent an SMS announcing his suicide plans to a friend. The findings of the medico-legal investigation and the results of a review of aircraft accident reports by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation (BFU) regarding suicidal plane crashes are presented.
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