TY - JOUR PY - 1978// TI - Airplane accident fatalities increase just after newspaper stories about murder and suicide JO - Science A1 - Phillips, David P. SP - 748 EP - 750 VL - 201 IS - 4357 N2 - 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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LA - en SN - 0036-8075 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.201.4357.748 ID - ref1 ER -