March 2020 Blues Vol 36 No 3
The BLUES Police Magazine, March 2020 Blues Vol 36 No 3
The BLUES Police Magazine, March 2020 Blues Vol 36 No 3
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turned and he just fell out?<br />
“Yes sir”<br />
Well is that your airplane<br />
parked outside.<br />
“Yes sir”<br />
“Come with me.” I walked the<br />
young man down the stairs.<br />
Grabbed the Sheriff and Chief<br />
and said come with us please.<br />
We all walked up to the instructors<br />
ironically ‘red and white<br />
Cessna 152’ and I said Ok get inside.<br />
And he opened the door and<br />
climbed inside. <strong>No</strong>w if you have<br />
NEVER been inside a Cessna 152<br />
it’s about the size of a YUGO. Or<br />
for you younger cops, a Smart<br />
fortwo car. In other words, its<br />
damn small and a pain in the ass<br />
just to get into.<br />
One he got inside I said, “Ok,<br />
he was sitting exactly where you<br />
are correct?’<br />
“Yes.” Ok I said, now let me<br />
hold the door open for you while<br />
you roll out.<br />
“What” he asked. I said, “Just<br />
roll out. Don’t worry, I’ll have the<br />
Sheriff catch you.”<br />
What happened next was just<br />
embarrassing for the young man.<br />
He looked stupid trying to “roll<br />
out” of that tiny plane. First of<br />
all, you’re practically sitting flat,<br />
and your legs are tucked wayyyy<br />
up under the cockpit instrument<br />
panel and there is no way in hell<br />
you can roll out or “fall out” of<br />
a 152.<br />
The Sheriff looks at the kid and<br />
says, “Ok so he didn’t fall out.<br />
What the hell happened?”<br />
The kid starts crying and tells<br />
us how he got a call from a<br />
student that wanted to go flying<br />
and asked if they could go do<br />
some high-altitude maneuvers.<br />
Once they got to 8,000 feet the<br />
student said he was in trouble<br />
with the law and he didn’t want<br />
to jail and that he just wanted<br />
to end his life and he was going<br />
to jump out. The kid said he was<br />
scared the guy would try and<br />
crash the plane, so he took the<br />
controls and watched the guy<br />
climb out of the seat and make<br />
his way out of the door and<br />
jump.<br />
“And how long did that take I<br />
asked?”<br />
“About 20 minutes” he says.<br />
That’s what I thought. “Come<br />
on, let’s go get into the Sheriff’s<br />
helicopter and go find this guy.”<br />
About an hour later, we found<br />
a very large hole in the ground<br />
with a lot of cows standing<br />
around looking. And yes, it was<br />
pretty nasty.<br />
Moral is. If a young flight dude<br />
says someone “fell out of an airplane”<br />
most likely they jumped.<br />
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