The all-too-real scenario is that this guy hoped to hijack the plane, etc.
It shouldn't be forgotten that 30 miles away at the exact same time Al-Hayat was shooting his way through LAX, a small plane was sending out three "Maydays" before it plowed into a crowd of picnickers.
Forty-eight hours later, the U.S. issues an alert, warning owners of small planes to be on the look-out for terrorists who would hijack or sabatoge their aircraft.
Vigilance.
An item came over the radio yesterday and caught my attention: the gunman's wife and children were in Egypt at the time. They had left in June.
More circumstantial evidence that this was planned, if you ask me.