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Wonder if he was aiming for Pratt & Whitney which I read was 200 yds away?
They are thinking it might have been suicide (oh wait, he's Muslim, can't be mental illness).
Sources: Student Pilot Was Distraught, Fought With Instructor; Road Reopened
Another source said the student pilot started flying the plane erratically and the instructor fought to gain control before the crash. The source said the student was distraught and feeling stressed over his poor performance at the flight academy.
A federal official told The Courant that the crash appears to have been a case of suicide, and that nothing had been found by Wednesday evening to suggest terrorism. The official said authorities expected to clear the crash scene Wednesday night, but that FBI agents in Chicago, where the father of the student pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, lived briefly in the city's suburbs, were expected to continue to look into his background.
"Unfortunately, this looks, at this point, like an individual who wanted to end his life and used this event to do it," the official said.
Suicide with someone else in the airplane, and tried to crash into others on the ground. That isn't suicide, it's attempted homicide.
And it was HORRIBLE planning and execution if that was the intent. I won't go into how to maximize casualties with a light plane -- but I looked at the crash scene and it didn't look anywhere near a planned deal.
Reports of him FIGHTING with his Instructor on board? C'mon. Hijacking a student training flight?
This guy was irritated about stuff. MAYBE irritated with American flight instructors who won't teach them how to fly into buildings.
Flight Instructor is still alive right? you'll know soon enough if your attention span allows.
Yep! And after you arrived at your destination you had 30 minutes to call them and confirm arrival or they would call out the guard. I remember forgetting that step once. Serious frowns ensued.I never met a pilot who kissed his airplane.Where did you hear he wanted to be a pilot? Everything I have heard is, his parents wanted him to be a pilot. He had been fighting it since day one.Doesn't even appear at this time to have had anything to do with his religion....he was not doing well in flight school and being a pilot was a big dream of his. But hey, he's Muslim...gotta be religion
Freitekh's Facebook page is littered with photos showing his love of flying, including his profile picture that shows Freitekh kissing the nose of a plane. He also posted several pictures of the insides of cockpits and images with inspirational quotes related to flying, including "Born To Be A Pilot" and "Your wings already exist all you have to do is fly."
Student Pilot Had Passion For Flying
I did after I soloed. Never thought he and I would make it back to ground intact. We still chat on FaceBook.
All the articles I've seen so far are pointing towards suicide, no evidence of religiosity or ties to any terror groups found at this point. Apparently being a pilot was very important to him and he wasn't doing well in the course.
Student Pilot Acted Out Of Character For Days Before Crash, Investigators Told
Yep! And after you arrived at your destination you had 30 minutes to call them and confirm arrival or they would call out the guard. I remember forgetting that step once. Serious frowns ensued.I never met a pilot who kissed his airplane.Where did you hear he wanted to be a pilot? Everything I have heard is, his parents wanted him to be a pilot. He had been fighting it since day one.
Freitekh's Facebook page is littered with photos showing his love of flying, including his profile picture that shows Freitekh kissing the nose of a plane. He also posted several pictures of the insides of cockpits and images with inspirational quotes related to flying, including "Born To Be A Pilot" and "Your wings already exist all you have to do is fly."
Student Pilot Had Passion For Flying
I did after I soloed. Never thought he and I would make it back to ground intact. We still chat on FaceBook.
Usually, your instructor is waiting on the taxiway to see if you survived. And rip your shirt up and hang in the Flight Lounge. Mine was hanging at Gainesville airport for at least 10 years. I'm sure the guys in the tower are yucking it up too when a new person solos..
All the articles I've seen so far are pointing towards suicide, no evidence of religiosity or ties to any terror groups found at this point. Apparently being a pilot was very important to him and he wasn't doing well in the course.
Student Pilot Acted Out Of Character For Days Before Crash, Investigators Told
This is not uncommon, suicidal people who actually do want the one way ticket and can operate an aeroplane, fast and easy way to finish it.
Although you can appreciate why people think that he as a Muslim could have had terrorist reasons for committing this taking the aeroplane into the building, whether as part of a terror group or as a lone thing by himself.
And yes, I can understand the terrorism concerns.
I don't fly anymore but it was a real fun time. I loved it.Had no idea Willow and Flacaltenn were both pilots....who'da thunk? Pretty neat
Yep! And after you arrived at your destination you had 30 minutes to call them and confirm arrival or they would call out the guard. I remember forgetting that step once. Serious frowns ensued.I never met a pilot who kissed his airplane.Freitekh's Facebook page is littered with photos showing his love of flying, including his profile picture that shows Freitekh kissing the nose of a plane. He also posted several pictures of the insides of cockpits and images with inspirational quotes related to flying, including "Born To Be A Pilot" and "Your wings already exist all you have to do is fly."
Student Pilot Had Passion For Flying
I did after I soloed. Never thought he and I would make it back to ground intact. We still chat on FaceBook.
Usually, your instructor is waiting on the taxiway to see if you survived. And rip your shirt up and hang in the Flight Lounge. Mine was hanging at Gainesville airport for at least 10 years. I'm sure the guys in the tower are yucking it up too when a new person solos..
We were out practicing touch and go's and on the last one he told me to taxi to the hanger then all of a sudden he told me to stop taxiing and he got out of the plane. I looked at him in shock at told him to get his ass back in the plane I wasn't ready yet He said yes you are take her around a couple of times. My cross country was from PFN to Monroeville Alabama to Lake Eufala and home. I had to land in Monroeville and Lake Eufala and bring him the gas tickets. I still have my shirt and my gas tickets.
All the articles I've seen so far are pointing towards suicide, no evidence of religiosity or ties to any terror groups found at this point. Apparently being a pilot was very important to him and he wasn't doing well in the course.
Student Pilot Acted Out Of Character For Days Before Crash, Investigators Told
This is not uncommon, suicidal people who actually do want the one way ticket and can operate an aeroplane, fast and easy way to finish it.
Although you can appreciate why people think that he as a Muslim could have had terrorist reasons for committing this taking the aeroplane into the building, whether as part of a terror group or as a lone thing by himself.
This is playing out an awful lot like that horrible crash of the Germanwings flight last year
Could be anything but an act of terrorism cannot be ruled out yet as it is in the realm of possibility.The pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, came to the U.S. on a temporary student visa in 2012 for flight school. The legality of his immigration status is unclear.
Freitekh’s potential motivations are unclear at this time. Local media report he was killed in the crash.
Motivations unclear???
Yeah right.
Developing: Jordanian ‘Student’ Intentionally Slams Plane Into Downtown Conn. City
So do they have the motivation for this yet?
Motivations:
Couldn't get the sort of Kebab he liked?
Pokémon GO didn't work properly?
Was a gay Muslim and was dumped by secret Hell's Angel's boyfriend?
I don't fly anymore but it was a real fun time. I loved it.Had no idea Willow and Flacaltenn were both pilots....who'da thunk? Pretty neat
Yep! And after you arrived at your destination you had 30 minutes to call them and confirm arrival or they would call out the guard. I remember forgetting that step once. Serious frowns ensued.I never met a pilot who kissed his airplane.
I did after I soloed. Never thought he and I would make it back to ground intact. We still chat on FaceBook.
Usually, your instructor is waiting on the taxiway to see if you survived. And rip your shirt up and hang in the Flight Lounge. Mine was hanging at Gainesville airport for at least 10 years. I'm sure the guys in the tower are yucking it up too when a new person solos..
We were out practicing touch and go's and on the last one he told me to taxi to the hanger then all of a sudden he told me to stop taxiing and he got out of the plane. I looked at him in shock at told him to get his ass back in the plane I wasn't ready yet He said yes you are take her around a couple of times. My cross country was from PFN to Monroeville Alabama to Lake Eufala and home. I had to land in Monroeville and Lake Eufala and bring him the gas tickets. I still have my shirt and my gas tickets.
Maybe we should have a Flying forum. Although I quit when I got to Cali. Complicated story.. .
I don't fly anymore but it was a real fun time. I loved it.Had no idea Willow and Flacaltenn were both pilots....who'da thunk? Pretty neat
I think that is so fascinating - never flew myself. My boss, when I worked for NASA ages ago was a pilot - still weren't a lot of female pilots then. She said she stopped when she got too pregnant to fit. She flew bush planes in Alaska. I can only imagine the challenge that would be.
Exactly. If he wanted to kill himself he could have gone off and shot himself in the head or hanged himself - ALONE.They are thinking it might have been suicide (oh wait, he's Muslim, can't be mental illness
Sources: Student Pilot Was Distraught, Fought With Instructor; Road Reopened
Another source said the student pilot started flying the plane erratically and the instructor fought to gain control before the crash. The source said the student was distraught and feeling stressed over his poor performance at the flight academy.
A federal official told The Courant that the crash appears to have been a case of suicide, and that nothing had been found by Wednesday evening to suggest terrorism. The official said authorities expected to clear the crash scene Wednesday night, but that FBI agents in Chicago, where the father of the student pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, lived briefly in the city's suburbs, were expected to continue to look into his background.
"Unfortunately, this looks, at this point, like an individual who wanted to end his life and used this event to do it," the official said.
Suicide with someone else in the airplane, and tried to crash into others on the ground. That isn't suicide, it's attempted homicide.
That is the puzzling aspect .....he was in the plane over a populated area. The earmarks of a terrorist attackExactly. If he wanted to kill himself he could have gone off and shot himself in the head or handed himself - ALONE.They are thinking it might have been suicide (oh wait, he's Muslim, can't be mental illness
Sources: Student Pilot Was Distraught, Fought With Instructor; Road Reopened
Another source said the student pilot started flying the plane erratically and the instructor fought to gain control before the crash. The source said the student was distraught and feeling stressed over his poor performance at the flight academy.
A federal official told The Courant that the crash appears to have been a case of suicide, and that nothing had been found by Wednesday evening to suggest terrorism. The official said authorities expected to clear the crash scene Wednesday night, but that FBI agents in Chicago, where the father of the student pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, lived briefly in the city's suburbs, were expected to continue to look into his background.
"Unfortunately, this looks, at this point, like an individual who wanted to end his life and used this event to do it," the official said.
Suicide with someone else in the airplane, and tried to crash into others on the ground. That isn't suicide, it's attempted homicide.
Exactly. If he wanted to kill himself he could have gone off and shot himself in the head or hanged himself - ALONE.They are thinking it might have been suicide (oh wait, he's Muslim, can't be mental illness
Sources: Student Pilot Was Distraught, Fought With Instructor; Road Reopened
Another source said the student pilot started flying the plane erratically and the instructor fought to gain control before the crash. The source said the student was distraught and feeling stressed over his poor performance at the flight academy.
A federal official told The Courant that the crash appears to have been a case of suicide, and that nothing had been found by Wednesday evening to suggest terrorism. The official said authorities expected to clear the crash scene Wednesday night, but that FBI agents in Chicago, where the father of the student pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, lived briefly in the city's suburbs, were expected to continue to look into his background.
"Unfortunately, this looks, at this point, like an individual who wanted to end his life and used this event to do it," the official said.
Suicide with someone else in the airplane, and tried to crash into others on the ground. That isn't suicide, it's attempted homicide.
Could be anything but an act of terrorism cannot be ruled out yet as it is in the realm of possibility.The pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, came to the U.S. on a temporary student visa in 2012 for flight school. The legality of his immigration status is unclear.
Freitekh’s potential motivations are unclear at this time. Local media report he was killed in the crash.
Motivations unclear???
Yeah right.
Developing: Jordanian ‘Student’ Intentionally Slams Plane Into Downtown Conn. City
So do they have the motivation for this yet?
Motivations:
Couldn't get the sort of Kebab he liked?
Pokémon GO didn't work properly?
Was a gay Muslim and was dumped by secret Hell's Angel's boyfriend?
"Suicide attacks have occurred throughout history, often as part of a military campaign such as the Japanese Kamikaze pilots of World War II, and more recently as part of terrorist campaigns, such as the September 11 attacks."
Suicide attack - Wikipedia
Several thing has been conformed:
1. it was intentional;
2. it is believed to be suicide.
The one further issue to be decided is whether the "suicide" was part of a plan designed to be a terrorist attack especially and Pratt and Whitney could have been a possible target.
That is the puzzling aspect .....he was in the plane over a populated area. The earmarks of a terrorist attackExactly. If he wanted to kill himself he could have gone off and shot himself in the head or handed himself - ALONE.They are thinking it might have been suicide (oh wait, he's Muslim, can't be mental illness
Sources: Student Pilot Was Distraught, Fought With Instructor; Road Reopened
Another source said the student pilot started flying the plane erratically and the instructor fought to gain control before the crash. The source said the student was distraught and feeling stressed over his poor performance at the flight academy.
A federal official told The Courant that the crash appears to have been a case of suicide, and that nothing had been found by Wednesday evening to suggest terrorism. The official said authorities expected to clear the crash scene Wednesday night, but that FBI agents in Chicago, where the father of the student pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, lived briefly in the city's suburbs, were expected to continue to look into his background.
"Unfortunately, this looks, at this point, like an individual who wanted to end his life and used this event to do it," the official said.
Suicide with someone else in the airplane, and tried to crash into others on the ground. That isn't suicide, it's attempted homicide.
That is the puzzling aspect .....he was in the plane over a populated area. The earmarks of a terrorist attackExactly. If he wanted to kill himself he could have gone off and shot himself in the head or handed himself - ALONE.They are thinking it might have been suicide (oh wait, he's Muslim, can't be mental illness
Sources: Student Pilot Was Distraught, Fought With Instructor; Road Reopened
Another source said the student pilot started flying the plane erratically and the instructor fought to gain control before the crash. The source said the student was distraught and feeling stressed over his poor performance at the flight academy.
A federal official told The Courant that the crash appears to have been a case of suicide, and that nothing had been found by Wednesday evening to suggest terrorism. The official said authorities expected to clear the crash scene Wednesday night, but that FBI agents in Chicago, where the father of the student pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, lived briefly in the city's suburbs, were expected to continue to look into his background.
"Unfortunately, this looks, at this point, like an individual who wanted to end his life and used this event to do it," the official said.
Suicide with someone else in the airplane, and tried to crash into others on the ground. That isn't suicide, it's attempted homicide.
May be the moslem tried to crash the plane into the Pratt and Whitney factory. Pratt and Whitney makes fighter plane engines....who knows.
Meanwhile, “nothing’s off the table,” East Hartford police Lt. Josh Litwin told reporters on Wednesday, including terrorism, as the crash has been deemed an “intentional” one.
We shall see.
