Twink with good hair pushed, fell or flung himself from plane?

Send Gil Grissom. He’ll figure it out.

Suspicious circumstances, indeed.

Remember: It's not the fall, it's the sudden STOP!

Twink, or post-frat douchebag?

Are we sure the plane lost its wheel first? He might have taken the wheel as revenge for being pushed out of the plane.

The co-pilot is safe and sound. Only minor injuries after landing the plane. Why aren't they interrogating him?

bizarre. the plane landed ok. he must have spazzed out.

or watched too many superhero movies.

Can we circle back to the "good hair" part? Why does that matter? Does OP want to scalp the corpse and get a new rug?

well, he did land in someone's backyard.

If you listen to the report, it sounds like the family where the body fell were just grateful he didn’t hit their house.

R9 R10 So the hair is intact. I'll get the pizza cutter and the tongs. You tell OP to get his chrome dome ready!

Did the co-pilot have bad hair? Motive.

A spider came down on a thread of web in front of his face and he freaked out.

I hope the spider survived.

One more angel

Peter Pan syndrome.

Someone should check the cockpit recording to see if there was a triggering event that caused him to jump or be pushed out of the plane.

Hmmmm…

He could have been trying to check the landing gear and accidentally fell out of the plane.

[quote]The co-pilot is safe and sound.

But is he of sound mind?

[quote]If you listen to the report, it sounds like the family where the body fell were just grateful he didn’t hit their house.

I guess they were worried that bodies falling from the sky wouldn't have been covered under the catastrophic clause of their home owners' insurance.

He's a little fat to be considered a twink, OP.

Which would you hate more if it fell from a plane? A dead body or the deposits from an airplane toilet?

This local news story says that the pilot told the tower in Raleigh that the guy jumped out of the plane.

The subdivision where he jumped would have had storm water retention ponds and he was probably trying to land in one.

I said to a friend yesterday that it’s shocking that a well-trained pilot, this guy was near being qualified as a professional pilot, would be so stupid as to think jumping from a moving plane without a parachute at any height is a death wish compared to attempting to belly land at the area’s largest and most well-equipped airport.

Let's get Poirot to investigate

You cannot “fall” out of a plane.

I’m on this one like stink on a monkey, boys.

A private plane that size may not have a voice or instrument recorder. Safe belly landings of even big planes are not rare. I go with the “leaning out of the plane to check the gear” theory. But that seems pretty stupid, even for a kid pilot. They could do a flyover at the airport and ground people could check?

“Fell or jumped?” Hah!

Touch nothing!

Not cute. And yellow, jacked teeth.

R27- If he actually fell out of the plane he was none too bright, either.

R25, what would he have been checking? They already knew, after the hard landing in Raeford that they had lost a wheel. It’s not like a fox could be done in the air. You land and take your chances.

I think he panicked and jumped. That’s why the pilot isn’t speaking publicly and news reports are going with “fell or jumped” rather than what the pilot told the tower at the time, because he doesn’t want the family to have to admit that the guy panicked and stupidly jumped while he came out practically unscathed.

He obviously died of natural causes. Nothing unusual here.

R29- Maybe he saw a gremlin on the wing? 🤷‍♀️.

I have followed this story closely because I live very near the RDU airport and a plane crashed in my backyard back in the Nineties. It was a small commuter airplane, not much larger than this one, and had it crashed today it would have taken out four or five houses at least.

The FFA built a road out into the woods to haul all of the wreckage out and came to our house about six months later and asked if we had any metal we’d found. We did and they took it immediately.

My partner ran out after the crash and saw the bodies. A woman was walking around barefoot with one shoe in her hand and the first thing she asked him was, “Have you seen my shoe. I lost my other shoe!”

R32- We lived by the airport when I was growing up as well. I remember having nightmares about about planes crashing into our home. He must have have mental or emotional issues, or maybe he was on drugs if he actually jumped, otherwise it makes no sense.

Could he forgotten he wasn't wearing a parachute in his panic? I mean, when people panic they react out of habit?

R34, people training as pilots don’t wear parachutes. It makes the passengers a bit scared during boarding.

Had to have been the teeth

Was the the body nude when it was discovered?

R35- Here is more info.

R35- The plane was contracted for paratroopers.

Losing a wheel is certainly an extreme emergency but it does not seem like an extreme panic situation like fire or engines out.

Surely he fell. I think you'd very much struggle to push someone out of a plane against their will.

R39, it is most commonly used in the US as a passenger plane. Check Wikipedia for the operators that use this plane in the US. Other than Blackwater, none would use the plane as a jump plane.

Regardless, this was the copilot, no a jumper out of its, optional, rear hatch.

An owl killed him on the way down

R42- That is from the Reddit link, apparently this guy was a mod on their subreddit about plane crash investigations.

[quote]I go with the “leaning out of the plane to check the gear” theory. But that seems pretty stupid, even for a kid pilot.

He should’ve been belted in. There’s no way he “fell.”

They were pledging for the Mile High Club. Bottom got surprise anal and catapulted out the window.

But what was on his iPhone? (We used to say "What was on his iPod" but I don't think anyone has those anymore)

[quote]But what was on his iPhone?

I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline

Jump (For my love) - The Pointer Sisters

buddy holly?

Was he found nude AND with a dick in his mouth?

The FAA hasn’t interviewed the pilot yet.

If we have moved to iPod, this would be good. )The boys, not Madge, do all the jumping.)

R16. Maybe he heard Beyoncé use the word spaz.

R8 It's a tousled windswept look that can go anywhere. Styling's a breeze!

[quote]A woman was walking around barefoot with one shoe in her hand and the first thing she asked him was, “Have you seen my shoe. I lost my other shoe!”

Isn't that what Ron Glass's character did in in the 1978 made-for-TV movie "Crash"? It was a knock-off of "Airport" and other 70s airplane disaster movies. It had a very Datalounge-y cast.

Forgive me, but the woman & her shoe story reminded me of this:

[quote]—J. Fletcher, getting my magnifying glass

Step aside, you Depends-wearing crone!

Well I never in all my life.

Y'all can both kiss my ass!

OP- He looks a bit CHUNKY to be a TWINK. Twinks are generally slender/slight.

R61 The Black Death!

This was in today's NYT print edition. A pic, along with a mere one-line message in a NYT In Memoriam for my sister, cost me $1400. I can only imagine how much more this pic & very lengthy obituary set back his family. They must have a lot of money to afford this.

R64 that was a very long read! Poor family

So he was going to barf and fell out?

It sounds like he jumped out on purpose. Based on that obit, he packed a lot into 24 years.