Chilling audio revealed moment pilot made emergency call after his co-pilot jumped out of plane without parachute

A pilot who witnessed his colleague leap from their plane has had his reaction revealed.

While you might think that being one with the clouds day in and day out would be a peaceful scenario, there are a lot of challenges for those who take it up as a career, and the risks could be fatal.

This is why pilots go through such extensive training, and even when they think they’ve seen and prepared for it all, they can never predict what is going to happen.

A 2022 audio recording between air traffic control and the pilot of a CASA C-212 twin-engine turboprop light cargo plane has been released, and it’s unsettling.

When the call came through to the air traffic controller at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, US on July 29, they could not have been prepared for what they would be told.

The audio recording of a pilot whose co-pilot leapt from the plane has been revealed (FAA)

The clip, which circulated online, hears the pilot explaining that his co-pilot had jumped out of the back of the aircraft, which was missing a main landing gear wheel before he tried to attempt an emergency landing.

The conversation began when right before the plane made its emergency landing, with the Pilot stating: “My co-pilot just ran out the back of the plane.”

RA: “Shady 02, what now?”

P: “He just ran out the back of the plane.”

RA: “So you don’t have a co-pilot on you, sir?”

P: “No, he just jumped out the back of the plane.”

After asking whether he should circle back, the unnamed pilot said that the ‘dude literally jumped out the back of the plane without a parachute’ and that he was just making air traffic aware ‘you’re gonna have a dead body out where I just called you at’.

While the reason for the co-pilot’s alleged jumping remains a mystery, after the successful emergency landing, 23-year-old Charles Hew Crooks’s body was recovered by the authorities from a backyard in a neighbourhood in Fuquay-Varina, southwest of Raleigh.

Charles Hew Crooks was 23 when he died (Family Handout)

At the time, the jet had lost its right main landing gear wheel during a rough landing and had diverted to Raleigh-Durham so that it could make an emergency landing in a safe area.

When his body was brought in, an autopsy report was conducted, confirming that Crooks suffered multiple blunt force injuries in an ‘accidental fall’.

According to NBC, and the North Carolina chief medical examiner’s office, Crooks ‘had no significant natural disease’ and ‘toxicological testing detected no alcohols or common drugs of abuse’.

Further investigations found that the pilots had been dropping skydivers from the rear ramp, and after all had jumped off with their parachutes, Crooks disappeared whilst having been standing near the ramp, allegedly feeling quite sick.

“They were flying at approximately 3500 feet with the rear ramp open for ventilation. The aircraft encountered moderate turbulence,” the report said. “At some point, the decedent (copilot) opened a cockpit window for ventilation and possibly to vomit. Sometime after, he told the pilot that he felt he was going to be sick and apologized. He then departed the cockpit towards the open rear ramp; at some point, the pilot realized that he had apparently fallen from the aircraft.”