# Plane hits office building in Alaska **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-hits-office-building-in-alaska/741679 "2015-12-29T21:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-hits-office-building-in-alaska/741679/21 "2016-01-02T02:14:05Z")
Well said. I’m not real sure how we got off onto winds. I think the point was somebody asserting the winds were enough that a typical pleasure or training jaunt would be postponed, so the pilot had to have other motivations. I agree that winds almost certainly had zero to do with why/how the airplane ended up impaled in a building. For that we need to look at the pilot and aircraft, but most likely the pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-hits-office-building-in-alaska/741679/22 "2016-01-02T02:56:39Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Well said. > > I’m not real sure how we got off onto winds. I think the point was somebody asserting the winds were enough that a typical pleasure or training jaunt would be postponed, so the pilot had to have other motivations. > > I agree that winds almost certainly had zero to do with why/how the airplane ended up impaled in a building. For that we need to look at the pilot and aircraft, but most likely the pilot. They said the flight wasn’t authorized; whether that means he’s not a pilot, not checked out in that plane, or just you’re not supposed to take CAP planes up for joy rides wasn’t clarified. However, if you’re sneaking a flight, you don’t necessarily get to choose the best conditions. As for the winds, I’m thinking they were why his wing hit the building & not the whole plane. In other words, he was blown off from putting the propeller right into the wife’s office chair. Nothing to substantiate that, just a guess. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-hits-office-building-in-alaska/741679/23 "2016-01-02T04:54:37Z")
His wife now says that an ambulance call to their house the night before was because he was suicidal. So this is looking like suicide by plane. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plane-hits-office-building-in-alaska/741679.md?page=1)