'You know what you have to do': flight instructor opens door and jumps out of plane in mid-air in Argentina; student manages to land safely

Leandro Bertazzo, flight instructor who threw himself out of a plane in Argentina
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A flight instructor threw himself out of a plane mid-flight in Argentina, leaving a 22-year-old student alone in the cabin. She informed the ground team about what had happened and managed to land safely.
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The body of Leandro Bertazzo, aged 42, was found in a rural area of the city of Toledo, in the province of Córdoba.
"You know what to do", Bertazzo reportedly told the student, before jumping. The statement was narrated by the director of the aviation school.
"As soon as he said that, Leandro took off his headphones, left his cell phone aside and opened the door - something very difficult to do due to the air pressure", said Eduardo Alvarez, from the Flying Parrot Córdoba school, to the newspaper "Clarín".
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According to Alvarez, Bertazzo and the student were in a Cessna C-150, a small aircraft, the around 250 meters of altitude, last Saturday (4).
The student, whose name was not revealed, despite being shaken, contacted the team on the ground to help her make the landing, which happened normally. He already had a license, but had only a few hours of flying time and was doing a training session
The "Clarín" states that the pilot had sought psychiatric care, but had not communicated this to the flight school.
Alvarez also told the Argentine press that, on Saturday, the instructor's behavior did not raise suspicions among his colleagues. The only different attitude was to ask a colleague to give him a ride to Coronel Olmedo airport, picking him up at his house, where he lived with his parents. Generally, he went to work with his own car.
Before the flight in which he jumped from the aircraft, Bertazzo had carried out another instructional flight on the same day.
Although he worked as an instructor, Bertazzo had made a career as a commercial pilot
The incident is being investigated by the Federal Court of Córdoba.

Source: G1

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