He was absolutely NOT a terrorist. We need to back away from this mentality of calling anyone we don't like a "terrorist". I get seriously concerned every time I hear about some mayberry police dept. charging someone with "terrorist threats" for a domestic violence situation.

Terrorism is as much about motive as action...an intent to disrupt/destabilize society through wide-spread fear is terrorism. If you're committing a violent act for personal gain (or personal reasons against specific victims) that already falls under mundane criminal laws of which we have plenty. Of course if the level reaches a certain threshold, it could reasonably qualify as terrorism...ie somebody sets off a nuke to crash the stock market so he can personally gain from short-selling.

The danger of branding everything and everybody as terrorism is that we do, in fact, need some extraordinary measures to suppress terrorism. If everybody is a terrorist, then either...

1. Everybody is subject to extraordinary measures, or
2. We are so concerned with everyone's rights that we eliminate the extraordinary measures needed to combat real terrorists in the interest of protecting the rights of mundane criminals.

Calloway was trying to commit suicide, while incidentally murdering the witnesses. His goal was to trigger an insurance payout for his family. The absolute last thing on earth he was going to do would be to use the airplane for a 9/11-style attack...that would remove all doubt about suicide and any chance of insurance.