{"id":738735,"date":"2026-07-02T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:42:09","slug":"china-citic-tower-plane-crash-pilot-suffered-from-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738735\/","title":{"rendered":"China Citic Tower plane crash pilot \u2018suffered from anxiety\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3358600\/china-confirms-death-pilot-citic-tower-plane-crash?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pilot of a small plane<\/a> that crashed into Beijing\u2019s tallest building last week had long suffered from anxiety and discussed \u201cending his life\u201d in his diary, authorities in the Chinese capital said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a brief summary of an investigation, the Chaoyang district government said the pilot was a 66-year-old Beijing resident, identified only by his surname Liu.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The authorities said Liu, a freelance worker who was divorced and lived alone, obtained a sport pilot licence in 2021 and a private pilot licence in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>China suspends flight training nationwide after plane crashes into Beijing skyscraper<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He took off in an Aurora SA60L, a single-engine, two-seat light-sport aircraft, from a general aviation airport in the eastern district of Pinggu in the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pilot of a small plane that crashed into Beijing\u2019s tallest building last week had long suffered from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[550,4,450,139502,2310,451,3,22329,452,453],"class_list":["post-738735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-beijing","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-chinese-authorities","tag-friday","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-pilot","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}