“He had a very strange look in his eye that day,” recalled his father Afzal Chaudhary, a retired truck driver. One month later, Hasan was diagnosed with schizophrenia. On his 18th birthday, Mohammad Hasan Chaudhary backed his parents’ minivan out of the driveway without permission and disappeared. Two and a half years later, on Aug. 12, he stole a propeller plane, flew it more than 100 kilometres and crash-landed on Peterborough’s main drag . The second-oldest among Afzal and Noreen’s eight children, Hasan was a precocious student, excelling at math, science and technology, his father said.

Source: thestar August 19, 2016 23:03 UTC