Originally Posted by
Airbubba
If this video is indeed him it's all the more sadder. Towards the end of the video he says "and most importantly I get to visit those I love most" and there's various images of his family. Then as the video draws to a close he says one final line "it evens out in the end"; an almost prophetic sign-off in some way that makes one wonder exactly what he meant.
For anyone just looking at this coldly with the usual disconnected "some guy flipped, stole a plane and crashed it" there was a real man with real emotions, real people that loved him and who most likely had real hopes and dreams like the rest of us. But the pressures of modern living and who knows what demons got the better of him.
As we say when we see a fellow aviator brought unstuck by any one of the multitude of pitfalls that can befall us "there but for the grace of God....."
Fly high Rich