The pilot of a Civil Air Patrol airplane that crashed into a building in Anchorage, Alaska, this week committed suicide, according to media reports Friday.Doug Demarest, 42, died Tuesday morning when the Cessna 172 he was flying hit one of the upper floors of an office building, then struck another building before coming to rest on the ground.Speculation about the circumstances emerged amid reports that Demarest's wife, Katherine, works as an attorney in the first building the plane struck. A managing partner of her law firm, speaking for the family,told The Associated Press Friday the crash was a suicide. She declined to provide details.
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