TC - my own view is that you're not right on that, but I accept you could be. You however (I assume) don't think my theory could possibly be true - I generally agree with your posts but that seems a bit arrogant to me.
Don't get out of hand folks, I'm in no way condoning the pilot's actions here, but just trying to consider what actually caused him to hit the crane, as a technical point. Clearly whatever he was doing he shouldn't have been doing it, but I don't think he was being quite as reckless as some here would have.