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Re: Co-pilot jumps out of the aircraft while on approach during an emergency landing...

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digits_ wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:56 pm Do pilots dropping skydivers have to wear a parachute in the US?
Not always required. Commonly used in smaller planes, less so in bigger ones. Similar in Canada.

I'm not absolutely sure of the rules but this seems to be the case:
Parachute not required by FAA. Some STC's or 337's or what have you do require it, e.g. the flip-up in-flight door modifications for typical single piston engine Cessna used for skydiving. Some dropzones may require pilots to wear a chute. There's more of a push to wear one for low tail aircraft (e.g., Caravan), but less so for higher tail aircraft (e.g., Twin Otter, Skyvan, CASA), where there's less chance of a premature parachute opening by a skydiver taking out the tail or catching on the tail and causing control problems.
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Re: Co-pilot jumps out of the aircraft while on approach during an emergency landing...

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Something really fishy about this story.

First, the captain lets things get so out of control during a landing that they knock the right main gear clean off! Then the story is the f/o opens the ramp, gets up, and walks out the ramp!

The captain knows there is WAY more than that!

I think this guy fell out assessing the damage done by the hard landing.
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Re: Co-pilot jumps out of the aircraft while on approach during an emergency landing...

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J31 wrote: Sat Aug 20, 2022 5:32 amI think this guy fell out assessing the damage done by the hard landing.
A lot of us thought this may be the case, despite the pilot's initial brief statement... Now the later report seems to give more details that suggest it was indeed accurate.

Two things now seem likely to me... One is concussion, if the co-pilot did get a good whack (maybe he hit his head?) during the hard landing, it could have put him into an odd mental state. Maybe he did want to look at the gear damage and didn't articulate it clearly, maybe he just didn't really know exactly what he was going to do, and he accidentally fell out.

Two, is that he was suffering from undisclosed or unrelated mental health issues, and the stress of the hard landing was the "breaking point" and he felt that was it, he couldn't take it anymore.
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