[Acey]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

Could suicide cause a life insurance policy to be downgraded. If so I could see the person trying to make it look like it was an accident or at least unsolved.

Been there, done that....

1994, Federal Express Flight 705, a cargo jet carrying electronics across the United States from Memphis to San Jose, California, experienced an attempted hijacking for the purpose of a suicide attack.

Auburn Calloway, a Federal Express employee facing possible dismissal for lying about his previous flying experience, boarded the scheduled flight as a deadheading passenger with a guitar case carrying several hammers and a speargun. He intended to disable the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder before take-off and, once airborne, kill the crew using the blunt force of the hammers so their injuries would appear consistent with an accident rather than a hijacking. The speargun would be a last resort. He would then crash the aircraft while just appearing to be an employee killed in an accident. This would make his family eligible for a $2.5 million life insurance policy paid by Federal Express.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federa...ess_Flight_705

His plan failed.