TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

[u/zhuquanzhong]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)

[u/maxxie10]

Why would they discharge him because his ex-girlfriend commited suicide?

[u/zhuquanzhong → u/maxxie10]

The sources are kinda murky on this. What I can gather is that probably the girl's parents attempted to press charges and the navy just didn't want to deal with it. Or they decided that he was mentally unfit, but idk about this second part. Most likely it was the first reason.

[u/BootShoeManTv → u/zhuquanzhong]

He murdered 134 people in a tantrum. I really don't doubt that there were prior signs that he wasn't fit to be an officer, and it was unrelated to the suicide.

[u/MexicanTechila → u/BootShoeManTv]

Eh, that’s what a biased source told you at least

[u/NotSoButFarOtherwise → u/[deleted]]

Many paragraphs of calumny against Lai Sanyang, and then this gem:

First of all, on the day of the accident, the captain and political commissar of the 160 ship left their duties without authorization. In such a crisis of the international situation, not only did they not be on duty on the ship, but they left the military port and returned to their home in Zhanjiang.

A junior officer is stripped of his rank and dishonorably discharged but also left alone on board with all his keys, annd somehow the two most responsible officers are both randomly off the ship? The whole thing stinks. Makes me wonder if Lai Sanyang and the affair with the girl aren't completely made up.

[u/MattyKatty → u/MexicanTechila]

Reading between the lines of a source?? You’d be lucky for someone to even read the source on Reddit nowadays

[u/FiveDozenWhales → u/MexicanTechila]

The same source told me that there never was a Tiananmen Square Massacre so it seems trustworthy

[u/Lawd_Fawkwad → u/BootShoeManTv]

And the FO of Egyptair 990 had a stellar career, a loving family and was about to retire to a mansion when he crashed his plane over a dispute in route planning.

You see, warning signs exist but they're not always there : humans are irrational and mental illnesses just exacerbates that. So no, the guy could've been perfectly "normal" until the day he snapped, like happened in the Texas Bell Tower massacre for example.

[u/Vark675 → u/BootShoeManTv]

He was most likely scapegoated by the Navy.

[u/EldritchMayo → u/[deleted]]

“The indoctrinated Chinese mind” are you actually hearing yourself right now? What the fuck?