Originally Posted by
PukinDog
But you go on ahead thinking whatever you want about good 'ole plane-thieving, reckless-flying, suicidal "Rich" that felt like he was entitled to an audience just because he decided to off himself.
From his perspective, he probably didn't care about an audience. He just saw an opportunity and used it.
He flew out to the Olympic Mountains, that probably were most beautiful that time of day, and said goodbye to life.
That there is reckless behaviour in a person that isn't anymore afraid of dying shouldn't be a Nobel Prize worthy realization.
Would you rather had him take off, buzz around and not talk to controllers what this was all about?