Newly released report states pilot Charles Hew Crooks was visibly upset and may have fallen ill prior to jumping out of his plane. WRAL’s Julian Grace reports.
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Or he was pushed out..
I is a tragic, sad and painful story….It sort of teaches you a lesson in that not all distresses end in death, weather a deep depression or loss of any nature! So sad for this young man!
The way this guy speaks English is annoying AF dam immigrant
I think it’s an understatement to say I don’t think he handled stress well. I’m sorry to the family for the loss
It’s a chubby looking little plane.
insane.
Could be that he fell while checking the landing gear which fixed gear can shake alot in lower altitudes or possible drafts. Who knows?
Oh how sad.
RIP Pilot
That guy looked like he would have lit into the poor guy and he couldn’t handle it. Maybe he even told him to jump in his tantrum. It’s all very fishy.
So what was the point of this news story again? I’m confused. That the statement changed?
Here in CO someone tried to jump off a bridge over our i25 interstate yesteday. People are taking their own lives quickly.
I wonder if he’d lived what he would have thought about the comments here? 🤓
Lucky there was a pilot to take over.
Wtf??……wow! Almost wish I didn’t see this 😕
good thing he didnt fly commercial planes people like this should not get a licence at all
Squat down on it!
Despair must have been mounting in his life. This was the final catalyst.
Suffering does not end there, it continues to the afterlife.
@AkaDo and you know because you’ve been there I guess
I can relate to that poor man RIP so many people love you
”did we just lose the pilot”
“Yea we just lost the pilot”
“………………….where are the chutes?”
Panic attack or BS
I don’t think he jumped. I think he stepped out on the ramp door to get a visual of the right side landing gear, but unfortunately did not use a safety harness and with storms in the area, the plane probably hit some turbulence and tossed him out.
The shaky voice of the capt when he said the copilot jumped off the plane…
You take your life because you couldn’t land the plane properly, what a joke
He more than likely had all his coof jabs
Wow so he did intentionally jump. I thot it was an accident. Rest in peace sir….
Oh well
The vaxxx is making everyone cray.
Yes well that makes more sense now …. fell out seemed a bit of a stretch …
No way does a suicide brew in only a minute. No way. If true, that was a very unstable person
He saw his mistake as the end of his career. May have been a rash decision but it doesn’t mean he was mentally ill or depressed.
Jesus Christ. When he said co pilot jumped I really didn’t think he meant jumped from the plane. There’s a lot of people that are struggling with life. One minute you see them and all good in their world, the next time you see them and you can barely recognize them because the worries of the world is contorting the features and changing their posture. A kind word or a selfless act towards someone else really could make a difference in others lives. That 1 person dying affects countless others lives.
So is the other guy a suspect?
I’m so sad for this young man. Nobody deserves to feel this way. My deepest sympathy.
I’m sorry thus happened. Feel bad for his loved ones
😆 yes the co pilot jump out 😆 🤣 😂
Based on the way the pilot is speaking he’s being deceptive. Classic visual clues look up and to the left, he isn’t being honest.
Dude face your problems 😒
Sometimes something happens and its ur last straw. Been here before but got stopped unfortunately
May God keep his soul !
He probably got into debt with training and thought no one would hire him now after this mistake, probably pile up with personal life problems, and he snapped.
Awesome
They threw him out of the plane
@real atc
….now all I’m thinking of is bill Burr and his helicopter story.
Was the copilot married?
WTF, over..?
Part of the problem with younger folks now there’s so many of them take failure personally like not being good at something is something wrong with who they are as a character. If you’re reading this, mistakes happen. It’s part of life. But mistakes are not failures so long as you learn from them. Nothing is a failure so long as you learn from it.
This is so sad.. Deepest condolences to the family.. Praying strength and comfort in Jesus Mighty Name 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Did he think his career and his life was over or something? Do they take away pilot’s licenses for something like this? That could explain it if so. Horrifying way to go out though. He could have landed and went home and used a gun or something. This is just horrific. He almost definitely had something wro g going on mentally.
Poor guy
Anxiety/Panic Attack? Or maybe he was suicidal and no one knew. It can actually happen to anyone given the right circumstances.
Sorry but the narrator sounds like my Siri and now I want to be his friend.
Yeah ima jump off a plane. Then I’ll apologize because I know they are that std to think they would take my apology. F that lol they are not falling for that. You jump off the plane. You get what you deserve. Jail time.
Thank goodness Anne Heche wasn’t a pilot
i failed my first driving test. i was devastated . some people can’t handle failure. making mistakes is part of life.
Dang. The guy who told his copilot to go out onto the ramp to get a look and try to verify if their landing gear was indeed broken… rather than admit that they both made the mistake of 1) not telling him to 2) not securing himself properly, when there was nothing to hold onto in case of unexpected turbulence… is claiming that the copilot actually deliberately jumped. The things people will do to save their skin.
All of this is VERY hard to believe!
Really, who was the eye witness?
I don’t think he jumped he most likely fell as he was supposed to be harnessed this could have been easily avoided
The man said, “He either jumped, or he fell.” We all know that he did both.
He never learned self-forgiveness. Pilots who seek treatment for depression typically lose their licenses and never get them back. This is a powerful disincentive to get help.
I guess we’ll never know what happened, but I can tell you, when bad luck happens and you just have one thing after another happening in your life, you become defeated real fast.
Very accurate & poignant statement from this gentleman. Yes…people do all handle stress differently.
I feel it. I’m just about at that point to. The world has become a horrible place.
Or him and the pilot fought and the pilot pushed him out or he somehow unlocked a double locked door and fell out during fight. Does the pilot realize what he asking us to believe????
when you have “one of those days”, but you are 609 ft up in the air.
That Bert-Roussel guy seems very perceptive, I’d fly with him.
I think Dan Grider nailed it: He apologized for needing to vomit on the airplane. He accidentally slipped and fell while trying to throw up off the ramp. A real tragedy.
People need to learn self compassion, so they can forgive themselves and love themselves enough to want to stay alive, no matter what mistakes they make.
Wow that gave almost no information.
How do we know that dude didn’t just chuck him out
I’m sorry but this still smells fishy to me
So sad.
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Good thing he didn’t fly a plane with passengers later in life. He must of had mental issues to dealt with something of this minor.
Well better him than innocent people
Rest In Peace my brother! Very sad story 🙁 he could still be alive. Mistakes are always made. I wish someone was there to tell him that it’s all going to be okay.
In another YouTube thread a comment was made since this was a cargo plane and the landing gear was stuck he was assessing the damage to the gear from the opened ramp and fell.
I want to believe this more.
Ive said this many times and I dont mean to sound disrespectful or im not trying to catagorize a generation but young folks struggle handling stress and many of them just cant figure out healthy ways to vent their frustrations.
I’ve Alex gotten by with the help on my buddy Jack from Tennessee. 🥃
I wonder if that plane was running drugs.
A pilot I watch thinks he was air sick and tried to throw up out the back ramp. Then fell out. He said he has seen many passengers throw up in a plane. This pilot thinks he was throwing up in his mouth and tried to get to a place where he could throw up and not mess up the plane. Then fell out by accident. The I’m sorry was him apologizing for being about to puke.
An air sick commercially rated pilot?
He walked to the aft door during a go around?
Autopsy.
HE FELL OUT! HE DIDN’T JUMP! PLEASE STOP MISREPORTING THIS!
It’s a crazy world right now yesterday while driving around the city I saw many people sobbing at several bus stops, never seen it like that before
Wow great story.
Either he jumped, he fell, or he was thrown
He must have fell trying to ascertain the gear damage. Sad.
This is why I will never skydive, bungee jump, mountain climb with no gear, etc. And yes black people are already scared of those activities…so this reinforced those fears….yell go ahead though 😳 have fun
Or was he pushed 🤔 we’ll never know
By whom?
That’s one way to quit your job!
Maverick checked out
Can they not get the black box and listen to what exactly happened?
Poor guy, sometimes it only takes one thing to lead to another. When your spent your spent.
What? Are you trying to tell us that he committed suicide by jumping out of the plane? A little unbelievable.
Needs more explanation. How did he rough land but didn’t then jumped out when flying ?
F this, I’m out…deuces 🫡✌️🛬☠️
I am willing to guess that he may have had low self-esteem and making the mistake he made, it was too much for him to bear. He may have seen it as a career ender.
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WHAT THE ACTUAL?????? So sorry for his family.
I’m so lost. The plane crash landed then he jumped out of a grounded plane? Or he crashed into the runway then kept flying? I feel for this man and his family. But this story is horribly put together.
Pro 4:23
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
This man didn’t suddenly decide to do this, it had been brewing in him for a long time. Whatever you think of someone on the outside good or bad, there is a world of hurt and pain on the inside, in the “inner man”. The man that none of us show to one another, and it’s that man, that inner man that will win in the end. So take heed to watch your thoughts and get help if they are out of line with what’s right.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,to reward each person according to their conduct,according to what their deeds deserve.”
There has to be a buffer between who you think you are, and who you really are. The only suitable buffer is the Holy Spirit of God.
Proverbs 10:8
“The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin.”
John 3:16
” For God so loves the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”