Citation

Phillips DP. Science 1978; 201(4357): 748-750.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, American Association for the Advancement of Science)

DOI

10.1126/science.201.4357.748

PMID

17750236

Abstract

Fatal crashes of private, business, and corporate-executive airplanes have increased after publicized murder-suicides. The more publicity given to a murder-suicide, the more crashes occurred. The increase in plane crashes occurred primarily in states where the murder-suicides were publicized. These findings suggest that murder-suicide stories trigger subsequent murder-suicides, some of which are disguised as airplane accidents.

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