Hmm.. I thought I heard world’s fair in the audio I listened to... Must have been Olympics? Well, someplace with people in any case.
I listened to a recording of the guy’s comms with the tower. He (pilot-not-pilot) was thrilled at the Olympics. At first I thought he was talking the sporting event, and then I remembered where he was (the Olympic mountains). He said he’d never been there, asked the tower if he’d been there (yes) and sounded really pleased with the view.
After listening to the tape, I’ve concluded this was just one guys final fabulous suicide. He knew he couldn’t land it. The tower kept trying to talk him into staying over the water so nobody else got hurt.
I skipped the middle of the recording because that might have been the part where the guy says whatever final words, if he had any. I’ve had just one “final words” conversation, I don’t need to voluntarily listen to more.
So, no derp state action here. Just a pretty good pilot who did all his previous flying on an Xbox.
1962 World’s Fair AREA around the Space Needle.