Financial Pressures May Have Plagued SilkAir Pilot

Confidential investigation records relating to the 1997 loss of a SilkAir 737 over the jungles of Indonesia have indicated the captain had substantial debts that he covered with recently purchased insurance policies. SilkAir Flight MI 185 crashed into the Musi River in Sumatra on Dec. 19, 1997, for...

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