Had to be premeditated...multiple camera angles suggest at least a few people were aware it was going to happen.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31a_1508315027
"Just to do it." You must mean, "to do his job to feed his family"? I don't get the anger here...the context hardly seems to call for it. Can you elaborate? The caption explains that the aircraft is being scrapped. Is there a preferable fate that is economically viable? Personally, I thought that was an excellent slideshow...62 pics in a Gannett feature seems like a treasure trove.
Maybe I was being a bit too tongue-in-cheek. I tend to agree that the technology would probably have worked. I was more amused at the fact that the passenger was inadvertently outed as being a flagrant violator of the airline's rules and FAA regs on the use of mobile devices in flight. :)
It is in the article linked by Jeff Lawson, 6th paragraph.
"Kamath said he called his wife’s cell phone, then received a text message from her saying the runway lights were off and the plane was circling the airport."
How was the doctor's wife able to send him a text message while she was in flight? Even if the aircraft was equipped with wi-fi (it was an American Eagle regional jet), would the wi-fi have not been disabled while circling below 10,000 feet?
