Originally Posted by
Blues&twos
Was it actually a suicide, or did the chap get himself unintentionally way out of his depth? He sounded calm and relatively relaxed on the ATC recordings. Would a man about to kill himself be doing aerobatics?
Very sad, either way, fortuanate that no-one else was involved in the crash.
He stated multiple times we was going to end his life in many ways. He said he was going to do a loop then drive it nose down in the ground afterwards. Also mentioned he was surprised he didn’t impact terrain when he did one of the near ground maneuvers, he was expecting to implode it. Listen to the tapes.