A man who flew his plane into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper last week was a 66-year-old local resident who had expressed suicidal thoughts, Chinese authorities said Monday, amid intense speculation about the pilot’s identity and motivation.

Civilian aircraft penetrated Beijing’s highly militarised airspace to collide with Citic Tower, the capital’s tallest skyscraper

Chinese authorities say the pilot who crashed a small plane into Beijing's tallest building last week wrote about “ending his life” in his diary.

The pilot who died after crashing a small plane into Beijing's tallest skyscraper, injuring 13 people, had mental health issues and had written about suicide in his diary,…