"Yeah, we're actually ... we don't have any passengers
on board, so we decided to have a little fun and come up
here."
Source: FAA transcript of statement made
by one of the pilots of the Pinnacle/Northwest Airlink
CRJ that crashed in Jefferson City (MO), explaining why the
aircraft was flying at an unusually high FL410. Soon after that,
one engine quit, then another, and the rest is history.