Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself.Related video above: Fighter jets collide during Idaho air showFlight instructor Leandro Andr\u00e9s Bertazzo, 42, was found dead following the incident, which took place in Toledo, central Argentina, on Saturday, according to a statement from the country\u2019s public prosecutor, published Tuesday.Bertazzo was on board the Cessna 150 aircraft with a 22-year-old student named Rosario, CNN affiliate TN reported.The student said Bertazzo told her, “You know what you have to do, carry on,” before taking off his headset and seatbelt, opening the door and jumping out of the plane, TN reported.Eduardo \u00c1lvarez, director of the Flying Parrot C\u00f3rdoba flying school where Bertazzo worked, told TN that there were no signs that the pilot was planning to throw himself from the plane.Bertazzo had gone on a flight with another student earlier that day, \u00c1lvarez said.”He made this tragic decision on board an aircraft with another person by his side,” he said. “It\u2019s impossible to think about it or understand it, but the human mind is so complex.”Bertazzo was “a beautiful person with a great smile,” said \u00c1lvarez. “We are surprised that this has happened.”Opening the door of a plane in mid-air is extremely difficult, explained \u00c1lvarez, who compared it to trying to open the door of a car traveling at 200 kilometers an hour (124 miles per hour).Rosario, the student, managed to land the plane safely despite being in “complete shock,” he added. The plane was undamaged, \u00c1lvarez said.Bertazzo was highly experienced and had also worked as a flight instructor in neighboring Chile, TN reported.Prosecutors will now investigate the exact details of the incident that led to Bertazzo\u2019s death.If you or someone you know needs help, you can talk with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or sending a text message to 988, or you can chat online here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself.<\/p>\n
Related video above: Fighter jets collide during Idaho air show<\/strong><\/p>\nFlight instructor Leandro Andr\u00e9s Bertazzo, 42, was found dead following the incident, which took place in Toledo, central Argentina, on Saturday, according to a statement from the country\u2019s public prosecutor, published Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Bertazzo was on board the Cessna 150 aircraft with a 22-year-old student named Rosario, CNN affiliate TN reported.<\/p>\n
The student said Bertazzo told her, “You know what you have to do, carry on,” before taking off his headset and seatbelt, opening the door and jumping out of the plane, TN reported.<\/p>\n
Eduardo \u00c1lvarez, director of the Flying Parrot C\u00f3rdoba flying school where Bertazzo worked, told TN that there were no signs that the pilot was planning to throw himself from the plane.<\/p>\n
Bertazzo had gone on a flight with another student earlier that day, \u00c1lvarez said.<\/p>\n
“He made this tragic decision on board an aircraft with another person by his side,” he said. “It\u2019s impossible to think about it or understand it, but the human mind is so complex.”<\/p>\n
Bertazzo was “a beautiful person with a great smile,” said \u00c1lvarez. “We are surprised that this has happened.”<\/p>\n
Opening the door of a plane in mid-air is extremely difficult, explained \u00c1lvarez, who compared it to trying to open the door of a car traveling at 200 kilometers an hour (124 miles per hour).<\/p>\n
Rosario, the student, managed to land the plane safely despite being in “complete shock,” he added. The plane was undamaged, \u00c1lvarez said.<\/p>\n
Bertazzo was highly experienced and had also worked as a flight instructor in neighboring Chile, TN reported.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors will now investigate the exact details of the incident that led to Bertazzo\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
If you or someone you know needs help, you can talk with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or sending a text message to 988, or you can chat online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight school pilot jumps to his death midair, leaving student to land plane The pilot had gone on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":922195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[19031,323358,372232,3387,4446,372234,6290,372233,372230,3043,8141,16241,372231,194982,4906,50,57315,19035,372236,372235,127675,15689,42256,103],"class_list":["post-922450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-aircraft","tag-aligncenter","tag-bertazzo","tag-board","tag-death","tag-death-midair","tag-door","tag-eduardo-alvarez","tag-flight-school","tag-hour","tag-incident","tag-jump","tag-land-plane","tag-midair","tag-mmnd","tag-news","tag-pilot","tag-plane","tag-public-prosecutor","tag-rosario","tag-shock","tag-student","tag-tn","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116888294537533350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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