] An elderly man recently diagnosed with a brain tumor
] leaped to his death from a vintage airplane he rented to
] celebrate his 88th birthday, officials said Tuesday.
]
] Joseph Harold Frost took off his safety belt at 300 to
] 400 feet, stood up in the open cockpit of the two-seat
] biplane and went over the side Monday.
]
] "I think that was Dad's idea, to go out in a flash of
] glory," said Robert Frost, who had helped his father
] arrange the chartered flight on a biplane similar to the
] ones the elder Frost flew in World War II.
]
] The man landed on an apartment patio, horrifying those
] who witnessed it.
]
] "I saw him hit the power lines, heard trees breaking. I
] really thought it wasn't real," Cynthia Lankford said.

Im not sure that is a flash of glory.

Ill senior dies in jump from birthday biplane flight