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Pre-Flight
Person fell from airplane???
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/14/3753180/pilots-mayday-call-spurs-miami.html
This isn't the first time someone's fallen out of a plane at Tamiami. If I remember correctly there was a female student who committed suicide by jumping out of a trainer somewhere over the mangroves Southwest of KTMB about 15 years ago. I don't think her body was ever found.
More info as it becomes available.
Edit: Here's the old info on the previous "fall from airplane"
December 3, 1994 — Miami, Florida
Christine Marie Pascale, a 26-year-old private pilot, hired another pilot to fly her over the Miami area for the purpose of taking aerial photographs. When the pilot, Hodelin F. Rene, had reached the area she had said she wanted to photograph, Pascale opened the door, made eye contact with the pilot, and jumped out of the Cessna 172D (N707PP). The subsequent investigation revealed that she had had her private pilot certificate revoked by the FAA in 1991 as a consequence of her lying about many disqualifying medical conditions. She spent the next several years loitering at airports and making a nuisance of herself. The week before her jump, she went flying with another pilot in Homestead, Florida, and attempted to jump from the plane. The pilot landed and called the police. On December 3rd, Pascale tried again and this time she succeeded. Her body was never located but she was presumed fatally injured. (Sources: NSTB, Miami Herald)
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/14/3753180/pilots-mayday-call-spurs-miami.html
This isn't the first time someone's fallen out of a plane at Tamiami. If I remember correctly there was a female student who committed suicide by jumping out of a trainer somewhere over the mangroves Southwest of KTMB about 15 years ago. I don't think her body was ever found.
More info as it becomes available.
Edit: Here's the old info on the previous "fall from airplane"
December 3, 1994 — Miami, Florida
Christine Marie Pascale, a 26-year-old private pilot, hired another pilot to fly her over the Miami area for the purpose of taking aerial photographs. When the pilot, Hodelin F. Rene, had reached the area she had said she wanted to photograph, Pascale opened the door, made eye contact with the pilot, and jumped out of the Cessna 172D (N707PP). The subsequent investigation revealed that she had had her private pilot certificate revoked by the FAA in 1991 as a consequence of her lying about many disqualifying medical conditions. She spent the next several years loitering at airports and making a nuisance of herself. The week before her jump, she went flying with another pilot in Homestead, Florida, and attempted to jump from the plane. The pilot landed and called the police. On December 3rd, Pascale tried again and this time she succeeded. Her body was never located but she was presumed fatally injured. (Sources: NSTB, Miami Herald)