Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston had no passengers on board
... err.... and wasn't there some sort of bigger city below him? Seattle perhaps? Ah, I see, the lifes of pedestrians do not count in some pilot's worlds.
And for all the followers of the "nothing unsafe about it" fraction - it has gone wrong so many times when done in an airliner / small jet. And not just with noname companies on the tail logo.
Tex Johnson was just as mad (or sane) as these pilots who deceased in the SJ.