Very sad. The guy was a nice, disabled person with an IQ of maybe 80. He lacked proper parachutes and proper tools. He did not know that in 1960 the engineers from North American were experimenting with both parachutes and hang gliders at Edwards Air Force Base in order to bring the Command Module back to earth.
Someone should have intervened or taken the keys or disabled the engine.
He did not know that Pythagorus in 500 BC knew the earth was round by watching eclipses, the Apollo rockets were locomotives designed like a Swiss watch, and the Space Shuttle is the best machine ever built.
Moral of the story: please don’t get killed by dumbness.
Space Shuttle is a close second to the glorious SR-71.