AOPA President Craig Fuller is urging the public and policy-makers to remain thoughtful and well-reasoned regarding the recent suicide crash of a Piper Dakota into a U.S. Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas.

“[T]he fact is that pilots are a remarkably healthy group of individuals, both physically and psychologically,” Fuller writes.

Of the thousands of suicides each year, fewer than two each year involve aircraft, he said.

“It seems evident that the aviation community contributes little to this national problem,” he says.

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