Endo wrote:
It is really hard for me to get around the flight simulator link. That he had this basic random flight path programmed into his simulator at home.
Otherwise there there is just not much being brought forth on his mental state. There are ass-tons of depressed people in the world that are having spouse issues.
It's a whole level of exponential crazy (not depression) to leap from that to killing a plane full of innocent people.
I guess, but then most suicidally depressed folks don't have the means to go out in such an immortal fashion; i.e., creating a lasting worldwide media event for an epitaph. And I obviously don't really know, but trying to put myself in his place ~ if I were that far around the bend mentally as to be ready to end it all, why would I give a shit about all the passengers & crew being killed? I mean, I'll be dead anyway, so it's not like I'll be having to carry that burden around on my conscience...
Again just speculating, but maybe killing all those people really didn't factor into his motivation, but it was simply a necessary collateral step to ensure that the rest of his suicide mission was able to proceed without interference? I mean, if a certain twisted sense of immortality was his goal, then he certainly accomplished it. Everybody loves a good mystery, right? Philosophically, it's like an extreme inversion of the proverbial tree falling in the forest ~ in this case, if a plane falls into the ocean but nobody is around to see it, people will become MORE invested than if it simply crashed on land or close enough to be found where the wreckage can be salvaged and analyzed; once the riddle is solved & it's all done, people move on, yet here we are still captivated by this one 5 years later.