Big Red L:
I don't want to be too cynical but you have to live in the real world. An estimated 200,000 people die every day on this planet, in a variety of different and sometimes curious ways. I feel equally gutted for all of them, but it would be false, not to say mawkish, sentimental and inane for me to claim to have an ounce of genuine feeling for this chap.
Let's leave the emotional incontinence to the Americans.
I still don't believe it was 9000 feet.