[dfwgator]

"He had trained intensively for this stunt", his manager added.

Obviously it wasn't enough.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Darwin Award. Hopefully he did not have children.

[caww]

Apparently they didn't train him to let go of the plane.....he hung on to a nose diving plane til too late to open his parachute.

[Magnum44]

Ok, I get to tell a true story. As a younger pilot and skydiver (back in the 80’s, and not simultaneously), I had many thousands of skydives, and executed several such stunts, both as the pilot and wing walker. Another skydiver/pilot cohort of mine flew when I played outside, and I flew for his turn at it. I have many photos sitting on the leading edge of various aircraft wings before front flipping off the plane and opening the parachute. On one occasion, I was flying and my associate was going to climb out on the wing for take some pics for his ‘glory’ wall. Except he failed to remember that the control authority of the planes ailerons is designed for balanced weight. When he got out about 8 feet or father from the fuselage, the plane started rolling and diving and it was beyond any stick movement for me to correct. Fortunately we started this stunt at about 6000 ft and after a loss of about 3000 feet, he let go, cleared the tail and deployed. I then recovered the plane. In retrospect, not our brightest day, but one to remember for sure.

My flying is much more conservative these days. :)

[shotgun]

To quote Chas from “the Wedding Crashers”: What an IDIOT!