Originally Posted by
EternalNY1
Riddle Graduate here, that 1999 crash they mentioned was my dorm mate.
That was the incident where he left a note, told the tower it was going to be his "final landing", nosed up, stalled it, and impacted the runway.(
Actually, that crash was in 1998. The one in 1999 was a midair at DED (Deland, FL).
From a newspaper account about the 1998 crash:
ERAU INSTRUCTOR LEFT SUICIDE NOTE
Wednesday, September 9th, 1998
Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL)
Author: Brendan Smith, Staff Writer
“The crash spread burning wreckage across the main runway only minutes after the last Delta flight arrived, said air traffic manager Burt Willis. No flights were delayed Monday because another runway was available.”After drinking with friends and writing a six-page suicide note, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University flight instructor Michael Nawrocki crashed a stolen plane Sunday night at Daytona Beach International Airport, authorities said.
When an air traffic controller told Nawrocki he was flying high on his approach, Nawrocki radioed back: “This will be my final landing.”
Nawrocki’s death in the fiery crash of a twin-engine Piper Seminole at 11:22 p.m. Sunday was ruled a suicide Tuesday after an investigation by airport police, a sheriff’s investigator and the Medical Examiner’s Office.
https://ssristories.org/man-delibera...-suicide-note/