Suicide by airplane

I’ve long had a morbid curiosity about plane crashes and I love reading NTSB reports. Most small plane crashes are caused by your run-of-the-mill pilot error, but I get an especially creepy feeling reading about the pilots who have committed “suicide by airplane,” intentionally flying a perfectly good aircraft into the ground in order to kill themselves.

I’ve compiled what I think is a comprehensive list of the suicide-by-airplane attempts that have occurred in the United States over the past fifteen years. I’ll be keeping it up-to-date as further incidents happen.