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The disaster was widely ascribed to pilot suicide, although Egypt never accepted that finding.
There have been several cases of presumed pilot suicide in recent years.
In the weeks following the plane's disappearance, possible explanations for what had happened to flight 370 ranged broadly from mechanical failure to pilot suicide.
Philip Baum, the editor of Aviation Security International magazine, said: "From the moment it became apparent that the Germanwings flight had made a controlled descent… with no Mayday, one feared that either pilot suicide or a hijack was the cause.
The speculations why they were cut range from terrorism and pilot suicide to an electrical fire on board requiring all non-essential electronics to be shut down but these are just guesses; no one yet knows.There are good reasons why pilots should be able to disable equipment on board, the threat of fires being one of them.
The Oct. 31 crash killed all 217 people on board, and the sounds captured by the cockpit voice recorder, combined with information from the flight data recorder and from military radar, have led investigators to focus on whether the cause was pilot suicide and led officials at the National Transportation Safety Board to consider turning the case over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
And as technology and training improve and other causes of airline accidents decline, the unusual ones become a larger percentage of the total, like the crash of EgyptAir Flight 900, in which a Boeing 767 crashed into the Atlantic in what many investigators believe was a pilot suicide.
Could pilot suicide have been the cause?
Flight MH370: Could it have been pilot suicide?
The Aviation Safety Network says there have been eight plane crashes linked to pilot suicide since 1976.
