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>The prop stops spinning and he immediately opens the door. I'm no pilot (student or otherwise), but as a comment in OP's link points out, his door is cracked
by BbzzbB 5y ago
>The prop stops spinning and he immediately opens the door.
I'm no pilot (student or otherwise), but as a comment in OP's link points out, his door is cracked open before the engine shuts down.
At 2:35 we see it properly closed (as a layman would expect from someone sitting in a chair in the sky). At 2:37-42 in the establishing shot and the shot of the engine shutting down, it is clearly cracked open. As tho he was peaking out to see the terrain prior to killing his engine, like he does right after in the video.
That alone makes it... suspicious. You'd think he might have spread his friend's ashes just before as an explanation, but considering how he used said ashes as a video prop, I'd expect him to include that shot in if he'd done it. Does a small plane pilot have any reason to open the door other than anticipating a jump?
Than there's the whole parachute thing, which is further notable as you don't see him wearing any in his other flight videos.
- aeternum 5y agoIt's possible that the engine was out at that point and the prop was just flywheeling. Possible but unlikely as it sounds like the engine is still on in some of the external shots.
- Sebb767 5y ago> Does a small plane pilot have any reason to open the door other than anticipating a jump? Additional ventilation, especially in older planes (according to comments on the original article). So that's not a dead giveaway.