Yes, apparenty a suicide note has surfaced.  I'm reading it now and it sounds like hes all over the place.  No real delusions other than the suicidal intent and revenge itself, he seems to be just expressing grievances over everything.  I am waiting for investigators to look at the full scope of his situation involving the IRS and debts to see if he was desparate or delusional.

Sad indeed

Austin PD admonished the news media for publishing non-official stuff, like the suicide note. Apparently someone found it on a blog?
You got a link to either a new site or the blog ( which will likely get shut down soon anyway) with the note?
EDIT-- Never mind, found it.
There was an earlier report that the plane was stolen,  but APD said no. Also I heard both Piper and Cirrus as the type.

Quote:

It was a PA-28.

The "news" agencies pull sources from wherever they can like blogs and they were rightfully scorned.  The link to the website where I found the note no longer works, but I copied it into Word as I figured that would happen.  It is 6 pages long, and I find it hard to believe someone could have written it in the time from when he crashed to when I found it.  It has apparently been confirmed that he intentionally flew the airplane into the building after setting his house on fire.

Yeah, I saw the registration.  I found and pulled a copy of the letter on PDF format.  Wow. All over the place does not begin to cover it.

beaky wrote on Feb 18^th, 2010 at 5:46pm:

I mentioned in the Flightaware forum that the news first refers to him as "the pilot" and we must consider what we represent when we fly.

You should have been watching CNN earlier, it was a joke.  They were talking about how there are security gaps and how "anyone" could do this.  They also mention a psychological evals alongside the medical.  This would catch next to 0% of pilot suicides.  This is not a pilot issue, this is a suicide issue.  We need to help people recognize warning signs and prevent suicides, instead of making the cost of flying higher.  The current state of mental health in America is sad, maybe we could work on that while we're at it.

I was watching Fox (don't start a debate), and they couldn't stress enough that it was only one man, and that the same thing could've happened with a car. Of course, it probably helped that one of the anchors was a pilot.

The police said in their first press conference that it was an isolated incident and not connected to anything.  It doesn't take a genious, a pilot, or a news anchor to see it was one troubled person.  What I don't get is when they still maintain it was something else

beaky wrote on Feb 19^th, 2010 at 8:34am:


I understand your concern. As soon as I heard it was delibrate, I looked at my wife and said flying may suddenly get a lot harder. There was already some of this floating around after 9/11. A radio talk/call-in show here (Mike McConnel) mentioned s few times how much damage this one plane caused to a large building.

I am concerned where this will lead.

Personally I think trying to regulate General Aviation is folly.  There's simply too much, especially around all the major metropolises where would be "Terrorists" would pick targets.

This is not meant as a political discussion. The TSA has issues. we know that.

My concern is an attempt the increase regulations that will make it harder for more people to fly. Be it private jets, or single engine prop flyers like me.

Even then, this guy was a licensed pilot, with his own plane, no history of violence, or politcal militancy, just a tax problem. What regulation could possibly stop someone like him?