March 2020 Blues Vol 36 No 3

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