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Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Gbenge77(m): 4:04pm On May 18, 2011
A British Airways pilot who battered his wife to death, wanted to crash a jumbo jet full of passengers and crew the day after the frenzied attack 'to make a statement.
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Robert Brown, who was due to command a flight from Heathrow to Lagos the day after his wife's death ,told a jury that he contemplated crashing the jet ,killing himself and everyone else on board.

The 47-year old also said he had considered completing the journey to the Nigerian city,and then hanging himself in a hotel room.
Full story here,
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387753/Joanna-Brown-Trial-killer-pilot-apologises-wife-beat-deaths-family.html
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by buzugee(m): 4:21pm On May 18, 2011
crazy man, why crash the jet going to nigeria ? is it because it is full of negros ? take myself out with a whole bunch of negros grin why not crash the plane he flew to europe or asia or somewhere ? grin

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Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by idnole4(m): 4:28pm On May 18, 2011
gosh, glad it never occur. so he wants innocent souls to die with him, b*s*t*d.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Nobody: 8:30pm On May 18, 2011
IN HIS MIND: 'who'll care about a bunch of niggers? ofcourse the western press wont demonise him.instead, they'll blame it on his domestic/emotional issue/traumas.

I hope the NCAA is flaging this motherfuck*r
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Gbenge77(m): 8:52pm On May 18, 2011
Its absolutely incomprehensible
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by hollandis(f): 9:00pm On May 18, 2011
By David Wilkes

A British Airways pilot who battered his wife to death wanted to crash a jumbo jet full of passengers and crew the day after the frenzied attack to 'make a statement'.

Robert Brown, who was due to command a flight from Heathrow to Lagos the day after his wife's death, told a jury that he contemplated crashing the jet killing himself and everyone else on board.

The 47-year-old also said he had considered completing the journey to the Nigerian city and then hanging himself in a hotel room.

Speaking from the witness stand during his trial for murdering estranged wife Joanna, he said: 'I didn't want to be another husband who kills his wife and then himself and nobody cares.'
 
Robert Brown felt he had been 'stitched up' by his marriage contract the court heard
 
However, just hours before he was due to start his flight shift, Brown called in sick to BA's flight operations unit, following a night of phone calls with his family - who were concerned something had happened to his wife.

He was arrested after his brother Kenneth contacted police and another pilot was called out to take the flight.
Mrs Brown, 46, died in the hammer attack while her son and daughter were in a next-door room

Mrs Brown, 46, died in the hammer attack while her son and daughter were in a next-door room. Brown later buried her in a prepared grave in Windsor Great Park, part of the Queen's Crown Estate

Speaking at Reading Crown Court, the Scotsman said he wanted people to know how much he had been 'harassed' by lawyers - and so by crashing the plane and causing an atrocity it would come out in a public inquiry.

He said: 'They (the lawyers) should be held to account. I thought something needs to be done. I thought I want to fly one last time and crash the aircraft. I wanted them to be held accountable.

'I thought if I got to work I could crash an aircraft, or fly to Lagos and crash it there or hang myself in the hotel room. I wanted to make a statement.'

Yesterday, Brown wept as he apologised to his wife's relatives for battering her to death in a vicious hammer attack, which he claims he cannot remember. He admits manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but denies murder.

Slumped over in the witness stand, he held his head in his hands as he said an anguished ‘sorry’ to the family of the millionairess, who were watching from the public gallery.

He said he ‘lost it’ after his estranged wife made him feel like an idiot when they rowed as he dropped their son of nine and their 11-year-old daughter off at her house in Ascot, Berkshire. The children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been staying with him.

Mrs Brown, 46, died in the hammer attack while her son and daughter were in a next-door room.

Brown later buried her in a prepared grave in Windsor Great Park, part of the Queen's Crown Estate.

Brown claims the attack, during which he hit his wife at least 14 times with a claw hammer, causing 40 injuries, happened in the hallway of her £3million mansion after he had grown increasingly angry and frustrated over their bitter divorce proceedings, which had dragged on for three years.

He claims he was ‘stitched up’ by a prenuptial agreement, that Mrs Brown ‘deliberately concealed the extent of her wealth’ and that her lawyers were harassing him on an almost daily basis and had ‘destroyed’ his family.

Reliving the attack as he gave evidence at Reading Crown Court yesterday, Brown said he had awoken that day feeling that his troubles were ‘never going to an end’.

He claimed he had picked up the hammer from his shed on impulse and put it in a bag with the children’s homework before driving them to Mrs Brown's house.

Once there, he explained to her that their son had hurt his eye in an accident and needed some medication but when he went to look for it, it was not in the bag.

Brown told the jury: ‘She said you better go and get it. It was the way she said it, like you stupid idiot. It stopped me short. I turned round and walked away. That’s when I just lost it. I just burst, that’s it, I just burst. And I can’t remember what I did at that moment.
 
‘I blew and the next thing I remember I’m standing over Jo and she’s bleeding… I just don’t know what happened. That portion is a blank to me.’

He denied going there with the intention of injuring Mrs Brown. He then collapsed in tears and said to her mother Diana Parkes ‘I’m really sorry’, then to her brother James: ‘I’m sorry, I feel your pain.’

Deep sobbing could be heard from the public gallery, along with a cry of ‘shut up’ directed at Brown.

Brown said he ran into the kitchen to get a tea towel to try to stem the blood but it was ‘obvious Jo was severely injured’.

He carried her to his Volvo 4x4, put her in the boot and wrapped her in plastic sheeting rather than call an ambulance because there was ‘no logic, no rationale’, he said. ‘I just wanted to get the children away from there as soon as possible.’

Before leaving to drop his children off at his rented house in nearby Winkfield where his French girlfriend, Stephanie Bellemere, a BA stewardess, was staying, he went back inside to get his wife’s CCTV video recorder.

He claimed: ‘I was not thinking, I just wanted to get it. I was not covering my tracks.’

Brown said that in the car his son said ‘something about going to hospital’ and he turned to go there but then changed his mind, dropped the children off and telling Miss Bellemere only that there had been ‘an incident’. He then drove to Windsor Great Park.

He said he pulled into a garage there and looked at Mrs Brown. ‘I could not believe what I had done. I screamed and screamed,’ he said.

Brown told the court he then considered committing suicide by hanging himself or by crashing a plane. He flew 747s for BA at the time.

But he then decided he wanted her lawyers ‘held accountable’ for the way they had treated him and decided instead to put her body in a box that he had buried in the park almost two years earlier. 

Keen runner Brown claimed he had buried the box to bury the sham of his marriage and that he found it ‘therapeutic’ to imagine he was throwing her solicitors’ letters in it whenever he ran past it.

Brown handed himself into police the next morning.

The trial continues.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387753/Joanna-Brown-trial-Kille,
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by bkbabe97y(m): 9:02pm On May 18, 2011
Pretty sure he's Ibo. I wont even bother reading the link.

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Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Nobody: 9:18pm On May 18, 2011
^ ^ ^ Shataap there tongue angry
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by hollandis(f): 9:30pm On May 18, 2011
bk.babe97y:

Pretty sure he's Ibo. I wont even bother reading the link.
SMH
'some mothers do have em'
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by ektbear: 10:01pm On May 18, 2011
Crazy.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by ektbear: 10:04pm On May 18, 2011
Is this basically a tabloid btw? I went to the home page of the paper and all I see is sensational stories.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Gbenge77(m): 11:05pm On May 18, 2011
careytommy:

IN HIS MIND: 'who'll care about a bunch of niggers? ofcourse the western press wont demonise him.instead, they'll blame it on his domestic/emotional issue/traumas.

I hope the NCAA is flaging this motherfuck*r
lets really hope so.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Princek12(m): 1:06am On May 19, 2011
yepa
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by samoks(m): 1:08am On May 19, 2011
bk.babe97y:

Pretty sure he's Ibo. I wont even bother reading the link.

You must be STUPID and CRAZY, Why the hate? The report said a Briton, or which part of it don't you understand? I don't know when this country will get rid of your kind in our society.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by 190: 1:10am On May 19, 2011
Thats what metamorphosis of a pilot who is High on IGBO!! it takes stages to complete ------> ----->

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Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Nobody: 1:12am On May 19, 2011
White boy feels its ok taking out a bunch of blacks on a suicide trip because they are taught that blacks are subhumans.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by oboidanre(f): 1:19am On May 19, 2011
Scary shocked
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by cheche2(m): 1:21am On May 19, 2011
bk.babe97y:

Pretty sure he's Ibo. I wont even bother reading the link.
IDIOTA angry angry
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Nobody: 1:25am On May 19, 2011
bk.babe97y:

Pretty sure he's Ibo. I wont even bother reading the link.
lipsrsealed you and your ibo obsession
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by tpia5: 3:10am On May 19, 2011
who said God doesnt answer prayer.

would have been another sosoliso.

and in lagos for goodness sake!!!!!

like the road accidents, bombs, tanker explosions etc just arent enough?

he'd probably have gone down in some overcrowded neighborhood and added to people's suffering.

lord have mercy.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Jakumo(m): 6:08am On May 19, 2011
The life of airline captains is not as glamorous as many would imagine.   It often takes many long impoverished years for them to completely refund the loans they needed to complete aviation school, and when they first start out as regional airline pilots, they make as little as $14K a year.   Hell, Mcdonalds pays as much as that to its burger flippers, which explains why some laid-off pilots wind up settling for menial employment as truck drivers or store greeters in Wallmart.

Furthermore, seniority is completely lost when a pilot is furloughed, or voluntarily leaves one airline to join another.   That means a left-seat 747 captain who loses his high-paying job could wind up as a right-seat first-officer in a freight hauler like Fed-ex, earning peanuts, working long hours in the cockpit of an ageing 727 out in  far-flung locations, and losing all the prestige of that previous captain spot that took him literally decades to attain before that dreaded furlough.

Clearly this BA 747 captain was belittled and humiliated by his independently wealthy wife and her use of expensive attorneys in their marital battle, which explains his ultimate consideration of murder and suicide as an end to his troubled existence.  For every underpaid pilot who does tip over into insanity, there are many more who are near breaking point, due to the abiding curses of being underpaid, in troubled marriages, and on very difficult work schedules.

In my humble opinion, airline pilots deserve salaries and job promotion opportunities comparable to that of medical doctors, given that both categories of employment routinely entrust human lives to a highly trained professional who must not be distracted by money woes or fears of job security.   That being said, the suicidal captain who contemplated crashing his 747 into a Lagos suburb must now face the full weight of criminal justice.

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Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Nobody: 7:38am On May 19, 2011
I wonder where the whole racism thing is coming from. Why do some of we blacks always feel we're being attacked? Smacks of low self esteem to me. Come on, people.

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Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by BSF: 8:05am On May 19, 2011
A man who cannot Remember  when  he killed the wife woman is under a strange power that he could not RESIST.! Look at what he said,

‘I blew and the next thing I remember I’m standing over Jo and she’s bleeding… I just don’t know what happened. That portion is a blank to me.’

It started as resentment, grew to anger, moved up to disdain and plateaued at Murder-contemplation WHERE Satan Came in and TOOK CONTROL of his God-given mind.From there it was a Journey of no return!

ALWAYS REMEMBER "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7

ALWAYS & CONSCIOUSLY SUBMIT yourselves to GOD and YOUR MIND WILL BE SECURED FROM EVIL TENDENCIES
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by joecrack(m): 8:07am On May 19, 2011
Mad beast rot in jail
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by chelseabmw(m): 8:19am On May 19, 2011
Hope the pilot dies soon
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by batiatus(m): 9:00am On May 19, 2011
An attempted act of terrorism.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by turboman(m): 9:24am On May 19, 2011
Thank God this terrorist did not succeed. if he did, the episode would have been linked to the 2011election terrorist;  PDP, Boko haram,Babangida, Buhari, MEND, etc,  not knowing it was the singular plan of a "mutallabic Briton". Please BA should start carrying out mental and criminal examination (advanced CRB testing) on their pilots. Marital problem is not a justification for plotting the murder of more than 400 Nigerians (even  boko-haram and their likes have a better reason). Suicidal people should not even be allowed to drive themselves talk more of piloting jumbo jets.  

Secondly, if this goon carried out his alternative plan of hanging himself in a Lagos hotel room, Nigerian government would be answering questions till now and all the hotel employees would have had a permanent bed space at kirikiri
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by turboman(m): 9:27am On May 19, 2011
A significant percentage of world terrorist have ties with the UK; its either they are citizens, or trained,lived, schooled, etc, in the UK
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Jakumo(m): 9:37am On May 19, 2011
turboman:


Secondly, if this goon carried out his alternative plan of hanging himself in a Lagos hotel room, Nigerian government would be answering questions till now and all the hotel employees would have had a permanent bed space at kirikiri

So are you saying that the vacancies at the Lagos Kiri-Kiri Maximum Prison should be left un-filled ?

Please, calm down, and let us join efforts to try and sustain local businesses in Lagos, Nigeria, including the prison system, by ensuring that they are patronized by patriotic Nigerians on a continuous basis.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by turboman(m): 9:47am On May 19, 2011
Jakumo:

So are you saying that the vacancies at the Lagos Kiri-Kiri Maximum Prison should be left un-filled ? 

Please, calm down, and let us join efforts to try and sustain local businesses in Lagos, Nigeria, including the prison system, by ensuring that they are patronized by patriotic Nigerians on a continuous basis.

My brother, their business is booming, Kirikiri is fully booked for now o! EFCC have booked for 14 out of the remaining 15 bed spaces to lodge some of their clients after the May29 handover. the remaining one has been reserved specially for you. Good luck    grin
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by juliebest(f): 10:19am On May 19, 2011
He should have drank acid or smths else, but die alone instead of killing innocent pple.

Anyway thank God it didn't happen.
Re: Killer Pilot Contemplated Crashing A Lagos-Bound British Airways Jet In Suicide Bid by Jakumo(m): 10:30am On May 19, 2011
turboman:

My brother, their business is booming, Kirikiri is fully booked for now o! EFCC have booked for 14 out of the remaining 15 bed spaces to lodge some of their clients after the May29 handover. the remaining one has been reserved specially for you. Good luck grin

With that confirmation that my space in Kiri-Kiri is duly reserved, they should expect my Personal Assistant to show up in my place, to serve the time as required, and then report back to me.

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