Bharat Rakshak

chakra wrote:44 amateur pilots used airplanes for suicide

Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:0PM
The damaged Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, the day after a man flew his plane into it.

The damaged Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, the day after a man flew his plane into it.

About 44 amateur pilots in the United States have committed suicide by deliberately crashing their small airplanes during the past 30 years, according to a new federal report.

The suicide flights involved small, single-engine airplanes that private pilots flew into the ground, water or a building without injuring anyone on the ground, USA Today reports, citing federal crash records.

All of the suicidal pilots were males, and many had recently faced break-ups with wives or had confronted legal troubles, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report.

The suicides usually take place near small airports used mostly by private airplanes where the pilot is not paid to fly, according to NTSB reports.

The suicide crashes normally lack the publicity of last Tuesday's crash of a German airliner that killed 150 passengers and crew. The German co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, reportedly had a history of depression and suicidal tendencies.

The most recent suicide plane crash took place on January 11 when a 41-year-old man flew his single-engine, light aircraft into a field 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Denver, Colorado after his wife told him she wanted a divorce, according to an NTSB report.

The wife told police that her husband had said five years earlier that if she ever left him, he would fly his airplane into the ground.

The most notable airplane suicide occurred on February 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas when a local pilot reportedly angry at the US government deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office building, killing himself and an IRS employee.

The suicide attack by Andrew Joseph Stack injured 13 other people and ignited a massive fire.

Still, the number of airplane suicides in the US is far less than the hundreds of people who kill themselves each year by stepping in front of trains.

According to a report last week by the Federal Railroad Administration, approximately 340 people killed themselves by standing in the path of passenger or cargo trains in 2014.

The number of airplane suicides is also tiny compared with the approximately 350 people a year who are killed in private aircraft accidents in the US.

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/03/3 ... or-suicide

Shreeman wrote:

chakra wrote:44 amateur pilots used airplanes for suicide

Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:0PM
The damaged Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, the day after a man flew his plane into it.

The damaged Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, the day after a man flew his plane into it.

About 44 amateur pilots in the United States have committed suicide by deliberately crashing their small airplanes during the past 30 years, according to a new federal report.

The suicide flights involved small, single-engine airplanes that private pilots flew into the ground, water or a building without injuring anyone on the ground, USA Today reports, citing federal crash records.

All of the suicidal pilots were males, and many had recently faced break-ups with wives or had confronted legal troubles, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report.

The suicides usually take place near small airports used mostly by private airplanes where the pilot is not paid to fly, according to NTSB reports.

The suicide crashes normally lack the publicity of last Tuesday's crash of a German airliner that killed 150 passengers and crew. The German co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, reportedly had a history of depression and suicidal tendencies.

The most recent suicide plane crash took place on January 11 when a 41-year-old man flew his single-engine, light aircraft into a field 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Denver, Colorado after his wife told him she wanted a divorce, according to an NTSB report.

The wife told police that her husband had said five years earlier that if she ever left him, he would fly his airplane into the ground.

The most notable airplane suicide occurred on February 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas when a local pilot reportedly angry at the US government deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office building, killing himself and an IRS employee.

The suicide attack by Andrew Joseph Stack injured 13 other people and ignited a massive fire.

Still, the number of airplane suicides in the US is far less than the hundreds of people who kill themselves each year by stepping in front of trains.

According to a report last week by the Federal Railroad Administration, approximately 340 people killed themselves by standing in the path of passenger or cargo trains in 2014.

The number of airplane suicides is also tiny compared with the approximately 350 people a year who are killed in private aircraft accidents in the US.

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/03/3 ... or-suicide

44 is a very small number. insignificant. air travel is the safest mode of transportation. also you are quoting an iranian paper. from a country that wishes death to america routinely. small planes cant even cause the damage a car would. the trains had over 3000 accidents.

also have you checked how many people were killed/suicided by cars? you know the cops kill more than a 100 every month. are you saying we abolish the police?

bin comparison to the third world infrastructure in iran, the US has several layers of protection. including shooting down the planes to prevent the suicides.

you are just trying to invoke hysteria.

NEW YORK: Raising fears over the growing threat of homegrown extremism, three Americans, including two women, have been charged in separate cases of plotting terror strikes on US soil using "weapons of mass destruction" and of travelling to Pakistan to fight against American forces.

Noelle Velentzas, 28 and Asia Siddiqui, 31, former roommates in a Queens apartment influenced by the terror group ISIS, conspired to construct car and pressure cooker bombs to carry out strikes in the US.

In a separate case, 29-year-old Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The three appeared yesterday before US Magistrate Judge Viktor Pohorelsky of the Eastern District of New York.

chakra wrote:

Shreeman wrote:quote="chakra"44 amateur pilots used airplanes for suicide

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you are just trying to invoke hysteria.

You either cannot read an article or get hysterical easily!

WASHINGTON: Ruling that yoga taught in elementary schools is not a gateway to Hinduism and does not violate religious freedoms, a California appeals court has allowed it to continue.

"We conclude that the programme is secular. (and) does not have the primary effect of advancing or inhibiting religion, and does not excessively entangle the school district in religion," the three-member appeals court ruled Friday.

The decision by California's 4th District Court of Appeal upheld a lower-court ruling in support of the Encinitas Union Elementary School District in San Diego, utsandiego.com reported.

The school had been sued by parents who argued the school yoga programme was inherently spiritual and therefore unconstitutional.

Attorney Dean Broyles, who represented the parents in the lawsuit, was quoted as saying he and his clients "are disappointed with the decision and we are carefully considering our options."

"No other court in the past 50 years has allowed public schools to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god," Broyles said in an email to U-T San Diego.

Yoga has been a health and wellness activity in the school district since 2012, when the Encinitas-based Sonima Foundation gave the district $2 million to add yoga to all physical education classes.

Broyles sued the district on behalf of a couple and their two children, saying the programme violated the separation of church and state by endorsing Hindu religious beliefs promoted in Ashtanga yoga.

The state Superior Court sided with the district in 2013, finding that the school programme had been stripped of religious overtones, utsandiego.com said.

The trial court noted in its decision that the district's yoga classes "consist of instruction in performing yoga poses, breathing, and relaxation, combined with lessons in positive character traits, such as respect and empathy."

District Superintendent Tim Baird said school district officials had always anticipated a favourable ruling and are pleased now that it's happened.

All students in the district, which includes kindergarten through sixth-grade, get two yoga classes of 30 minutes or more per week.

"We are seeing tremendous results," Baird said. "Kids are more flexible, stronger, and have more ability to focus. We think this is a key to the 21st century."

Baird said he was surprised at the flap over the lawsuit as "Yoga has become ubiquitous in the United States."

"The argument that it turns somebody into a Hindu is a stretch."

We are seeing tremendous results

(when it was) Brahmanism and Vishnuism..." , and I was left thinking as to why not just say Hinduism?

pankajs wrote:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 803646.cms

Yoga is secular, not gateway to Hinduism: US court

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JE Menon wrote: I'm sure in due course some jingo guru will pop up espousing yeshuyoga - created when Jesus visited India before moving on to Missouri.

A_Gupta wrote:

The recent Pew Research nonsense that Christianity will lose followers by 2050 and fall behind Islam is, IMO, an attempt to prop up proselytization. Pew Research is supposedly non-partisan and non-ideological, but its parent organization has children organizations like "Gospel and Our Culture".

Remember, for all proselytizers, Islamic and Christian, falsehood and deception in the name of conversion is perfectly non-sinful, because it is for "the greater good". Also remember that proselytization, both Islamic and Christian, feeds on martyrdom (e.g., look up "Devasahay Pillai").

Hari Seldon wrote:But will Paco get enough protein in its diet aboard a dirty yindian rescue ship??

TSJones wrote:Oh, there's gotta be a lot of white Christian Americans just waiting to get out of Yemen. For sure. Just oodles and oodles of them. And all of them have Doberman carnivores as pets too. No kids though. The exes have custody of those back in the US.

TSJones wrote:Oh, there's gotta be a lot of white Christian Americans just waiting to get out of Yemen. For sure. Just oodles and oodles of them. And all of them have Doberman carnivores as pets too. No kids though. The exes have custody of those back in the US.

TSJones wrote:I am of the carefully considered opinion that any American that is so careless to still be in Yemen *and*, I repeat, *and*, expects the US to commit gazillions in resources and endanger further American lives in order to effect their rescue, needs to stay in Yemen and enjoy the climate there. However, I will admit that it is very nice of India to graciously provide assistance. Many thanks for that.

BTW, I am of the same opinion about Americans who go wilderness trekking and expect millions of dollars in rescue effort when they get into trouble.

TSJones wrote:However, I will admit that it is very nice of India to graciously provide assistance. Many thanks for that.

JE Menon wrote:We are alike in many ways.