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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Search crews in rural Tennessee have found the body of a man who fell an estimated 2,500 feet to his death after the cockpit canopy of his airplane opened, officials said on Saturday.
"They found him in a tree line, not too far off the road," about a half-mile from a volunteer fire station, said Bob Gault, spokesman for the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Search crews in rural Tennessee have found the body of a man who fell an estimated 2,500 feet to his death after the cockpit canopy of his airplane opened, officials said on Saturday.
"They found him in a tree line, not too far off the road," about a half-mile from a volunteer fire station, said Bob Gault, spokesman for the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
Yeh, I'm willing to say that's on the list of bad ways to go...I can think of a few that are worse but not to many. My biggest fear was always a structural failure...nothing you can do, but you're heading towards the ground, say, loss of a wing, elevator, destroyed pitch trim screw. Well, now that we've discussed my least favorite ways to die, I once again admit, this is pretty tragic.
They said the pilot came out, but what type of flying was being done to induce either enough negative G's to force the pilot through the roof, or, what type of maneuver to allow him to simply "slip" up and out?
That is a pretty horrific way to die. Unless the guy got knocked out on his way out of the airplane, he had some time to think about what was coming.
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It looks like a fun little plane.
