The Truth About Mass Shootings in Australia: The Father Usually Did It
May 14, 2018 by admin
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Most mass shootings involve family members.
Friday’s shooting, in which Peter Miles, a farmer, is believed to have killed his wife, daughter and four grandchildren, was the deadliest shooting in the country since 1996, when a gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
Before Friday, the worst shooting since 1996 occurred in 2014, when a farmer shot his wife and three children before killing himself.
The victims of mass shootings are typically the gunman’s family members, said Glynn Greensmith, a lecturer at Curtin University in Sydney.
More often than not, the man (and it is usually a man) behind the gun is the victims’ father, partner or husband, Mr. Greensmith said.
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Such killings, known as familicides, have “never attracted the same attention as the mass random shooting,” Mr. Greensmith said, “but has always been higher in number.”
Mental health is often a factor.
The incidence of suicide in rural Australia has been tied to a collapse of the traditional farming economy and a stigma against receiving help for mental health issues.
Rural suicides are so common that the phenomenon has been given a name: “the good bloke under pressure.”
Aaron Cockman, the former son-in-law of Peter Miles and the father of the slain children, said on Sunday that Mr. Miles “did not snap” but had been “thinking this through for a long time.”
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“Peter has been trying to hold it together for a long time,” Mr. Cockman said. “He’s just thought: I can’t live any more, so this is it for me. But I need to take out everyone because that will fix the whole problem.”
Mr. Cockman said Mr. Miles was strained emotionally: One of his sons had killed himself, and another had recently learned he was ill.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crash was deliberate, aviation experts suggest
May 14, 2018 by admin
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An investigation by an Australian TV news program suggests the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared with 239 people aboard more than four years ago, deliberately crashed into the Indian Ocean.
Investigators are still searching for the aircraft, but these findings raise the possibility that one of the greatest aviation mysteries in modern history may not have been a catastrophic accident, but instead a possible mass murder-suicide.
“60 Minutes Australia” brought together an international group of aviation experts who say that the disappearance of MH370 was a criminal act by veteran pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
“He was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately,” said Canadian Air crash investigator Larry Vance.
A panel of aviation experts and air crash investigators discusses the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy reconstructed the flight plan based on military radar, and says Captain Shah flew along the border of Malaysia and Thailand, crossing in and out of each country’s airspace to avoid detection.
“It did the job,” Hardy said, “because we know, as a fact, that the military did not come and intercept the aircraft.”
Hardy also made a strange discovery: Captain Shah likely dipped the plane’s wing over Penang, his hometown.
“Somebody was looking out the window,” he suggested.
“Why did he want to look outside Penang?” asked reporter Tara Brown.
“It might be a long, emotional goodbye — or a short, emotional goodbye,” Hardy replied.
Two experts from the “60 Minutes Australia” investigation also disagreed with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s scenario of the “death dive” with no one in control.
“I think someone was controlling the aircraft until the end,” said Hardy.
They argue instead that Captain Shah flew Flight MH370 another 115 miles than originally thought. “This was a mission by one of the crew to hide the aircraft as far away from civilization as possible,” Hardy said. “Which puts us way outside the search area that is currently being done.”
The wreckage uncovered so far may be further evidence that the pilot actually had control and that it was not a high speed crash. As Larry Vance noted of one wing component recovered from the shore of Africa, “The front of it would be pressed in and hollow. The water would invade inside and it would just explode from the inside. So this piece would not even exist.”
Larry Vance and reporter Tara Brown with a wing component recovered from the vanished MH370.
“They are very compelling,” aviation analyst Henry Harteveldt, president of Atmosphere Research Group, told CBS News’ Kris Van Cleave. “What I find very compelling is the hypothesis that the pilot did this deliberately, and did one of the most heinous acts in modern commercial aviation.”
CBS News spoke to multiple family members of the MH370 victims, and some say that this is nothing new and that without forensic evidence, they will not be convinced.
Captain Shah’s family tells CBS News that “pointing a finger toward him does not make them expert investigators – they have to find the plane.”
Malaysia Airlines has not yet responded to our requests for comment.
To watch the full “60 Minutes Australia” report, “MH370: The Situation Room,” click on the video player below.