Character traits that I have read;
His wife,
‘hard to live with, strong-willed and argumentative’
sometimes absent-mindedly driving over her roses as he rushed about in a digger doing jobs
His mother;
“He used to laugh and get frustrated by officialdom.
Himself;
“I had to ignore them because I knew what I was doing was right.”
Articles;
But his business acumen was bound up with a disregard for authority.
Earlier this year he illegally dropped a paraglider from his helicopter at 10,000ft and was fined £400 when footage of the stunt was posted online.
Mr Weir was not the type of man to let little things like rules stand in the way of his vision.
Would the legal team really be able to do me for slander?
I am merely repeating from published material in the public domain quotes from his own family and an incident already on the 'legal register'.
Fishbang, you may well have met Mark, but when you met him was it a dark wet windy night after a hard days work and a drive through the bad weather with possibly a pile of paperwork to sort out? Or was it with your wife on a day when he could drop everything and spent the next 2 hours with you? Was there also time to be bundled into a Jeep and driven up the mountain side and into the mine. Was there even more time to show you how roof slates were fashioned by hand.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not for one second doubting that Mark was a great character to be around, just that at this particular time something made him phone his wife, tell her that he loved her, get into the aircraft and take off.
Have you had a Look at a bigger picture, or even CAP737 ?