That's possible, I guess.
Does anybody know where the accelerator is on a train?
It's also possible there were drugs involved or that he passed out for some medical condition.
We just don’t know right now.
We also don't know that the Germanwings pilot was gay. There was speculation about that from the British tabloids, but no confirmation.
The Amtrak engineer in the 2008 Los Angeles crash was gay and texting right before the crash, but the crash wasn't deliberate.
There are a lot of gay men in LA and NY—so what?
It has been reported that this guy had his cell phone off and in his bag, per protocol, at the time of the accident.