Posted on 04/16/2009 8:15:49 PM PDT by Chet 99
Canadian man leaps to death from flying airplane
OTTAWA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- A young man aboard a small charter flight flying in northern Canada forced open the aircraft's door and leapt to his death, police said Thursday.
The accident happened Wednesday night as the plane was flying from Yellowknife, capital of Northwest Territories, to Cambridge Bay in Nunavut Territory, a spokesman of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
The man was apparently distressed before he leapt from the aircraft that was flying at an altitude of about 23,000 feet.
The crew of the King Air 200 aircraft called in an emergency during the flight, reporting that one of the two passengers on board was being unruly.
When police met the plane as it landed in Cambridge Bay, they learned that the 20-year-old man had opened the exit door and jumped out, despite efforts by the two pilots to stop the man from doing so.
With the cabin breached mid-air, the pilots steered the plane to a safe landing in Cambridge Bay, police said.
An air search begun Thursday for the man's remains.
I’ve never seen a King Air with doors that open inward.
Not me. I always used a parachute.
Maybe it's the Chinese definition of accident, to most of us, that's called suicide.
“So how did he do it?”
The pilot and copilot or the other passengers helped him out the door...
Which brings me to another poor-English example: “And air search BEGUN Thursday for the man’s remains.”
Should be “began”.
Lazy dolts.
That bugs me. I say “ATROCITY”, or at least “OUTRAGE” or “AMBUSH”. A tragedy is like Hurricane Katrina, e.g.
I think the proper 0bama era term for terror attacks is “Human Disaster”. *spit*
Yes, that way he can equate “global warming” with Moslem terrorists.
Old Rick is a whiney little bitch, all talk and no walk. Old Delmont could give that Canuck a lesson or two on trucking.
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009/090414pilotsave.html?WT.mc_id=090417epilot&WT.mc_sect=tts
Click on link under picture.
Re#30 Perhaps. I think it is moreso that “terror” and “terrorism” has become synonymous with Islam and Muslims and they want a degree of separation. Won’t be much help when we get hit again...
That’s why I said ‘normally’.
I’m not familiar with the King Air, but every pressurized plane I’ve flown on, the door opens inward.
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