"Mr Milk" I believe (but could be very wrong here) Mr Bell yr refering to took his own life by way of flying out into the wild blue yonder (Ocean) & proceeded to disappear, personal probs I think. We could however be talking about two diff people.
"S8" I flew into KII just recently & boy is that place dark at night esspecially when it's cloud covered (99% time probably) If Fred was planning to land there then you raise valid points as to why he (Fred) had not apparently organised for the lights to be activated, interesting that one.
CW