Originally Posted by
tdracer
Because getting killed in the resultant crash is so much better
This literally falls into the Darwin Award category, unfortunately with a bunch of other victims.
I'm just a private pilot (but I do fuel planning every flight), so what would I know? But I think tdracer has very succinctly summed it up. Remember, this guy, we're told, owned the airline; he didn't have management pressuring HIM.