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A 22-year-old student pilot safely landed a plane after her instructor jumped out of the aircraft and died mid-flight, according to multiple reports.
It happened Saturday in Argentina, La Nacion reports.
Pilot jumps to his death
What we know:
The student pilot told authorities that she and the pilot, 42-year-old Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, were flying at an altitude of 850 feet when Bertazzo said, “You know what you have to do.”
Bertazzo then removed his headphones, unfastened his seatbelt, opened the plane door and fell out of the plane.
The student pilot sent a message to air traffic control operators who helped her safely land the plane. The woman already had a license, but she had to have a pilot with her while she completed her required flight hours.
Bertazzo’s body was found later that day.
Reports say it was Bertazzo’s second flight of the day, and that he had “consulted with a psychiatric institution” a few days before his death.
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What they’re saying:
Eduardo Álvarez, the flight school’s director, said Bertazzo had nearly a decade of experience and had worked at the flight school for four years. He described Bertazzo as “a beautiful person with a great smile.”
“That day, we saw Leandro like any other. He arrived cheerful, kissing everyone as usual,” Álvarez told La Nacion. “The only thing that stood out was that, instead of coming in his own car as usual, he had asked a student to pick him up at the house where he lived with his parents in a neighborhood in the city of Córdoba. They were chatting away, and everything seemed fine.”
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“He made this tragic decision on board an aircraft with another person by his side,” he told TN. “It’s impossible to think about it or understand it, but the human mind is so complex.”
What’s next:
Prosecutors in Argentina are investigating the incident.
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