Building on some of the points already made…

As a pilot, I can tell you that distress signals are taken very seriously by the entire piloting community.  Some pilots have ended up crashing for fear of ‘overstating’ their crisis by declaring an emergency.  So to have a pilot falsify a report, put resources in the air needlessly, and on top of all that, allow his aircraft to fly at 2000 feet indiscrimately, then crash…is MIND BOGGLING.  I am sure all pilots find this behavior extremely troubling.  I am just thankful no one was killed.  Truly unbelievable.  A new low.

This guy is really a piece of work.  I cannot imagine how cold and calous a person must be to abandon a plane in midair with no regards for where it landed, who it injured or killed, etc.  Further, can you imagine what the military pilots must have been thinking when they intercepted this plane and the door is open and the cockpit is dark and it begins going down in a residential neighborhood and there was nothing they could do to change what was happening….. 

I would love to hear the pilots conversations over the radio from the time the intercepted this plane until it started going down nearly missing peoples homes…..

I hope that they find this guy and I hope there is someway to charge him with attempted manslaughter or wreckless endangerment….

One last note, I sincerely hope that this man has some time to reflect on the worry and anguish he has caused his family, his parents, etc.

Where in the world is Waldo?  The police can’t confirm?  For crying out loud.

Gone again?

it sounds like it very nearly did crash into someones house. a thousand yards away is a small margin of error if he jumped around birmingham. this ones gonna be interesting.

Maybe he thought he could pull off a D.B. Cooper… LOL

This will be an interesting story to follow.  And his father (or step-father) being laid to rest a couple days before this….hmmm.  Why would he do this and leave his wife and kids?  Where was he going to run off to?

a toboggan is what we call a sock hat or a beanie..

Thank God his plane did not crash into someone’s home.

This guy is a crook from years past and has been involved in numerous criminal schemes.  Looks like it has finally caught up to him.  When all this unfolds he will be found to have scammed many more people.  I always thought he’d get his.  Looks like he was trying to crash his plane in the Gulf and get lost somewhere else in the world. I’d be looking closely at his financial accouns to see if they are still there.  He’s a Madoff understudy.