Two people were on board a twin-engine CASA CN-212 Aviocar when it took off on Friday. Only the pilot was in the plane when it landed and came to a stop in the grass at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. CNN reports the co-pilot, 23-year-old Charles Hew Crooks, exited the plane prior to its emergency landing. WRAL reports the plane was having issues with its landing gear and has video of the landing here. Authorities have not yet said whether it’s thought Crooks jumped or fell from the plane. He did not have a parachute on, and his body was recovered Friday night in a resident’s backyard in Fuquay-Varina, which is about 15 miles from Raleigh.
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Opened the door to take a close look at the landing gear, lost grip or balance and fell?
Give that man a posthumous citation for littering or illegal dumping.
Does this qualify as an unintentional Darwin Award?
Find it hard to believe anyone would chose to jump without a chute. Must be his luck some how ran out. RIP
Good news is that nobody was injured during the wheels up landing.
Nice landing!
Lotsa nice private jets there. Probably because it’s pharma country.
THUD!
“Honey, didja hear that? Sounds like it was outside.”
Opens back door…
A bazillion pics of CASA Aviocars on the web and they insert one of a Beech King-Air 350.
Just wondering if the co-pilot had any connection to the Clintons…he did not commit suicide.
Stepped outside for a smoke and..”Awww shhhhhhiiiiiit!
“You forgot your mask…”
I think he fell out. Hope is a human flaw and I don’t think he would have given up until the very last.
…that’s nothing. A pilot abruptly left an internation passenger jet once mid-flight, got pinned to the OUTSIDE of the plane at several hundred miles per hour, and lived to tell about it thanks to a dedicated flight crew and a REALLY excellent co-pilot…
https://youtu.be/6SI2V_DbCTw
…be good to know if pulling the landing gear down on his way out was his last act, just saying…
murder
If you’re gonna kill somebody, you need a good alibi or a great story. This is neither. Moron.
THEY DON’T YET KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND ARE INVESTIGATING??
DID THEY THINK ABOUT ASKING THE OTHER GUY??
He forgot he was in a plane, and got out to check under the hood?
Another Covid-related death?
If only he had gripped onto the plane as well as Biden grips onto little girls.
Seen too many episodes of Air Disasters that ended badly – figured “flying” was less risky than “landing w/o landing gear!”
Did he say HOLD MY BEER?
@SNS, I watched that video. 😬 Incredible.
Conservative Cowgirl
JULY 31, 2022 AT 3:49 PM
“@SNS, I watched that video. 😬 Incredible.”
…and all because one idiot mechanic couldn’t be bothered to get the right fasteners for the job like he eas REQUIRED to do. Could EASILY have killed everone on the plane and some folks on the ground because, lazy.
It alwo shows the best in oeople too. The skill and professionalism of the copilot in dealing with the suddden situation, the teamwork of the guys holding onto the pilot, and the INCREDIBLE fact that you just can’t KNOW what a man can live through, so you should NEVER give up on trying to save a person’s life until they are cold, dead, and starting to smell, its all here…
…I don’t know what that pilot went on to do, but God must have SOMETHING in mind for you if THAT doesn’t kill you, so I hope he found what it was…
Up Yours
JULY 31, 2022 AT 1:48 PM
“He forgot he was in a plane, and got out to check under the hood?”
…you mean like THIS?
https://youtu.be/H1S9j3P2tec
@SNS, both pilots went on flying with different airlines. The Captain was back flying after a very short time! He said he loves flying. Probably figured what are the odds of it happening to him again!!
<probability_pedant>
@Conservative Cowgirl — Then somebody should tell that lucky pilot that probability has no memory. The odds of it happening again are the same as the odds of it happening the first time. </probability_pedant>
Had something on Hillary?
Uncle Al
JULY 31, 2022 AT 6:04 PM
…yet another truth movies teach against, here’s a plane crash probably to illustrate…
https://youtu.be/AyecklLMuI4
How much life insurance did he have?