Because he has cancer, a British university professor stole a plane to commit suicide in a strange way!

A British university lecturer in computer science stole a small American-made Cessna 172 Skyhawk plane from four seats, and dropped it in a field in the countryside of Kent, in the southeast of Britain, because he learned from his doctor that he had stomach cancer, and he will not survive more than 3 months, so he shortened the way and ended his life himself.

The journey of Dr. Christopher Woollard, 64, to a rare suicide, began by driving his car to Rochester Airport in the county, where he has been learning since March 2019 to fly, according to "Al Arabiya.net", which followed his story from the local media, especially the British newspaper "The Times", Apparently quoting Sergeant Jay Barrett, the officer who assigned him to conduct an investigation that took 5 months to conclude that the crash was not the result of a malfunction, as they thought, but rather a sure suicide.

What happened, that Woolard agreed with his coach for a training session on the morning of September 10 last year, so the coach gave him the set of keys to conduct "pre-flight checks" on the plane, as a normal part of the training, so the professor did, then climbed into the cockpit and headed the plane towards the runway, and from there He radioed the worker at that time in the control tower, and asked to speak to his trainer, and while he was waiting, he suddenly changed his mind and took off without warning.

The investigator then discovered that Woolard had given his coach access to his bank accounts to pay for the damages to the plane, after he had deliberately brought it down in an uninhabited area, where he saw its wreckage passing through the field, and he found that Woolard was still alive, so he provided him with the available first aid. However, the professor passed away two hours after his suicide.

Woolard was a member of an advisory board for a consortium of film industry people, from game developers to feature film producers, and spent several years working in the United States as a lead software engineer.

He was also part of a team that developed a supercomputer, which they used in 1993 to process images from the movie Jurassic Park, directed by American Steven Spielberg.

Yesterday, Friday, the International Moving Image Society mourned the suicide in a statement it issued and said that it will miss him and his "always advice and wisdom," as she put it.

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