Well, since Jack Batty mentioned “The Dirt Nap”, all I have left is:
"Bought the harp farm"
Or, as Chuck Yeager and the other test pilots say:
"Augered in."
In an aircraft related theme, when pilots go through cockpit instrument failure they must resort to “POW Mode”. This stands for “Peek Out Window Mode”. If a Captain continues to trust failed instruments and does the final face plant, this is refered to as being:
There are plenty of military terms for it, depending on how it happens. The most common is “getting greased” when one is killed in ground combat. There’s also “fragged” which involves being blown up or killed by shrapnel from other stuff blowing up. Sometimes people who “auger in” (not quite as common a phrase now with the lack of propellers) can also claim to “have his own smoking hole.”
If someone is merely missing in action (MIA for those who don’t already know) lately they’ve been referred to as having “gone Elvis”.