Originally Posted by
PukinDog
Dude was arrested for domestic violence just hours earlier when witnesses who saw him physically beating his wife on the side of the road called police. Punched her. Head-butted her repeatedly in the face. 2nd arrest for domestic violence within 6 months. Around midnight after making bail was escorted by police to his own home around midnight to get some things, after which he goes to the airport, fires up the plane, and proceeds to crash it into the house where his wife was sleeping.
Yet some question if wife-beating, Kamikaze Rhedd really meant to do any harm?
Wow.
In the nineties I worked as an investigator for defense attorneys. I may have that bias you suggest in your post. It might look like empathy, it isn’t. I learned one basic thing. It is impossible (for me anyway) to read a mature human being as to intent. I worked on some fascinating homicides; none of them were obvious at the outset. Knowing that, it became a project of research and data.
As a pilot, the plane’s configuration is interesting. Did he leave the gear down after launch from Spanish Fork? Was he just distracted, upset, or focused? Why the flaps? These questions come up naturally; forming an immediate conclusion is never productive. Was reported they had been drinking. That makes the case even more resistant to “intuition”.
I thought the Press report was satisfactory, the video was pure luck, though more a sign of the times than good neighborhood planning.
Pukin’ dog, I used the word “possibility”. Did you miss that? Your post suggests to me that you might have this thing all figured out. That so?
Sorry Dog. Yeah, lots of people use “pine” to mean softwood in general. Got it.
From the video, I see three discrete nav lights flashes. It suggests two things, and since my comments are gratis, I have no worry about offering a cash refund if my comment is in the weeds.
The aircraft “dove steeply” into the home. I estimate the velocity at 120 knots.