I wonder what the motive for this action looks like? If he’s a pilot, Wouldn’t it just have been easier to crash a plane he was piloting rather than try to crash a plane where he was a passenger. Maybe some type of life insurance scam where if it looks like an accident or something? Really struggling to put together the strategy on this.
I’m only familiar with one time that happened, Fedex Flight 705. In 1994, a DC-10 flight engineer decided he was going to provide for his family by dying on the job in a plane crash. His method of making this happen? Attack the flight crew with a guitar case full of hammers. He was not successful; he’s currently serving two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, charged with attempted murder and attempted air piracy. The three flight crew members he attacked survived with extreme injuries, the aircraft was repaired and only recently retired.
