I can try to understand suicide.. but jumping out of plane and letting it crash where it will is infuriating. Thank goodness no one was hurt. :maddening:
It's hard to understand, if he had the capacity to rent and fly a plane, couldn't he have done something else instead? But the mind gets fixated on suicide as the solution and doesn't recognize other options. I don't know in this case if he left a note, or what was in it, but some people just want to disappear off the face of the earth and never be found, others might want it to look like an accident.
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Renting a plane ... in order to jump out ... to commit suicide.
Rod Serling, is that you? Sometimes I think Websleuths should be called the Twilight Zone. Because crazy.
[h=1]University of Guelph execs go door knocking to check on students mental health[/h] by Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
Posted Mar 24, 2017
Top officials from an Ontario university took the unusual step of going door-to-door at campus residences three nights this week to check on the mental health of students.
It has been a trying time at the University of Guelph, where four students have killed themselves since the academic year began last fall, with the latest suicide occurring in January.
The condition of the crashed aircraft leads me to believe the doors were closed. So, the pilot exits the airplane, hangs out on the wing strut, and closes the door behind him? I mean, the propwash does make closing the door easier, but really? That is indeed going to great lengths...
"Both the active air and ground searches for him have been suspended," Brown wrote in the release. "University Police have reasons to believe his actions likely were an act of self-harm."
https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/university-student-linked-plane-crash-ontario
According to a link posted upthread, he was a Chinese national in a doctoral program in the School of Information - while suicide is a possibility, espionage is another one, IMO.
http://wawa-news.com/index.php/2017/03/18/mystery-surrounds-crashed-cessna-skyhawk/
The site of Canada's secret moose-breeding program?It's rather hard to imagine dropping from the sky for the purpose of espionage, but especially not in Marathon.
It's rather hard to imagine dropping from the sky for the purpose of espionage, but especially not in Marathon.
Xin Rong, 27, a PhD student at the University of Michigan and an experienced pilot, rented a Cessna 172 at the Ann Arbor Airport and had charted a flight to Harbor Springs. He flew out of the Ann Arbor Airport at approximately 1900 hours.*
When it crashed outside Manitouwadge, Canada, more than 400 miles away, investigators were puzzled by the empty cockpit and the lack of footprints in the snow surrounding the wreckage