son of witless wrote:
Once he started the plane up he knew he would be fired. Then when he was doing his barrel rolls and they tried to talk him down, he wasn't going to face the consequences of his actions, loss of job, jail, psychiatric hospitals. Suicide was preferable. He wanted as much time flying as possible, which is evident by his comments on how fast his fuel was being used up, but he did not seem to care that ultimately he would die.
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