All I could think was, “what if he changed his mind halfway down?”
You have to admit, it would’ve been hysterical if the pilot had foreseen his intentions and tied a bungie cord to his ankle when the old man wasn’t looking.
They say intense regret is what is experienced when one tries to commit suicide by jumping… of course only the survivors can tell us. Heh.
Incoming!
“Hey Bill. So what’d you do this weekend?”
“Oh, I had to dodge a couple of geriatrics that slammed into my patio at 180 mph. One of 'em really bent the shit out of the chase lounge.”
“How about you?”
I’m guessing something went horribly wrong when the pilot informed him he should start preparing for the final descent…
An old man who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer decides to go out in a blaze of glory by renting a plane for his birthday. Without telling anyone he decides to jump out while it’s in the air to experience the ultimate free-fall as his final act on earth.
As the plane approaches several hundred feet, he takes off his seatbelt and, with one last “Hail Mary” takes a swan dive out the door.
On the way down, his cell phone goes off. Despite the awful timing, he answers it. It’s his doctor.
“Mr. Frost! I have wonderful news!”
“Uh, doc, this is kind of bad timing, but… what is it?”
Here it comes
“I just got off the phone with Geico, and I’m gonna save 15 percent on my car insurance!”
Ironically, when he landed, the radio on the patio was playing,
It’s raining men
Hallelujah it’s raining men, Amen
I’m gonna go out
I’m gonna let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
Of all the tasteless things posted in this thread, that is the tasteleast! Bravo! 
You oughta post that in this thread!
I hate it when people just drop by without phoning first.
Does anyone know the type of plane and whether it is capable of inverted flight? (even for a brief spell).
Is there any way that a forensic investigator would be able to tell that a plane had recently been flown in inverted orientation?
Nah, he’s old, he just exploded into dust and grit when he landed.
Inconsiderate bastard.
Endangered the pilot, opened him up to lawsuits and civil AND criminal investigations, endangered the people on the ground, endangered their property, DESTROYED some of their property, and inflicted potential psychological damage on the people who had to watch his dessicated ass pancake into the middle of their patio.
If that happened to ME, I’d be on the horn to my lawyer so fast, it’d make your head spin. And then someone would be calling me a monster, for even thinking about suing his estate for his incredible arrogance and thoughtlessness.
All I can do is hope the kids didn’t see it. Who the hell was this fool, drafting an innocent pilot to be his unwitting executioner, and inflicting his messy suicide on complete strangers?
What an ass.
This is my worst nightmare.
I hold a commercial pilot ticket and am often hired for pleasure flights like this one. It would take a lot to make me give up flying, but something like this might do it.
If you’re going to off yourself, fine. Just do it in a polite manner.
Maybe a Medicaid administrator told him to take a flying leap.
Or maybe he wanted his obit to say that of his entire high school class, he made the greatest impact.
I agree that his act was reckless and inconsiderate.
I doubt the pilot told the old man to take off his safety belt, then flew upside down to make him fall out.
I’m sure it would be possible to interfere with the safety belt in such a way that it appears secure, but isn’t.
It was a Stearman. They happily fly upside down, and are commonly seen in airshows doing exactly that.
No.
Let me ammend that - in some airplanes inverted flight results in a severe loss of engine fluids, but I don’t think the Stearman is one of them.
So, what you saying? You think the pilot murdered the man?
WHY?
Give us a motive. How in the hell would a pilot expect to get away with that?
Anyhow - all accounts I’ve seen stated that the safety belt was unbuckled. There is no way for the pilot to reach the buckle of the passenger’s belt while in flight. Either it wasn’t buckled at take-off, or it was undone by the passenger himself. Also keep in mind that the passenger was a pilot himself, with experience in similar airplanes - he would know the importance of being buckled, and would know how to operate such gear. If the safety straps were undone it was because of the action of the passenger, not the pilot
That’s a pretty cool way to go, but the old buzzard could have had the good graces to get a pilot in on the schtick, and to do it over the dessert or something. Still makes for a damned funny thread, though.
I wonder if it was this company that he flew with. El Cajon is east of San Diego and though these people are located in Carlsbad, which is north of San Diego, they are the only company in the area that I’ve seen that advertises biplane rides. They also operate at some sort of vintage air rally that is held yearly at either El Cajon or it’s neighbor, La Mesa, I don’t remember exactly wich city it’s held in.
I feel sorry for the pilot and his company. I’ve actually taken the biplane ride this company offers and got to fly the plane! They are very nice people. No one deserves having to be involved with something like this.