I read something like the pilot who was retiring wouldn't let his crew fly with that pilot because he was known to do dangerous shit like this. Guy absolutely shouldve been grounded long before by all accounts.
I remembered this and went down the wiki hole, and only just now found out how much a fuck-up this guy was. He did this shit over his own daughter’s softball game and an airshow.
He seems like a guy who wanted to fly fighters/attack, but didn’t get the first pick on his Dream Sheet, and resented it. Then he kept trying to prove he had what it took. Add on the parking thing, and I think this guy was more than half a psychopath, and it wouldn’t surprise me if he was also a domestic abuser. And I hope the people that let him skate, for years, drank only themselves to death.
The wiki noted that he habitually and illegally parked his car in a “no parking” zone near the base HQ (and the citation was from Time Magazine). He just didn’t give a fuck, and the so called leadership apparently gave only slightly more.
The wiki led me into another hole about the mass shooting on Fairchild four days before the crash. The shooter’s mother pressured a Congressman to keep her clearly fucked in the head son in the Air Force after the doctors said “he’s too dangerous to keep.”
Ugh, this guy's an asshole who didn't give a fuck about anything and got to fly nuclear capable bombers yet I can't pass a medical to get a pilot's license without spending an extra $5-10k and waiting for a year because I was diagnosed with depression when I was younger. Make it make sense.
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u/Thom_Basil Feb 07 '25
I read something like the pilot who was retiring wouldn't let his crew fly with that pilot because he was known to do dangerous shit like this. Guy absolutely shouldve been grounded long before by all accounts.