A copilot who jumped to his death from a small airplane in was upset over damaging the craft's landing gear during a failed runaway approach, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.The plane's pilot-in-command told federal investigators his copilot, Charles Hew Crooks, 23, 'became visibly upset about the hard landing' in the minutes after they diverted to another airport for an emergency landing, the report stated.The copilot, who had been in control during the botched landing attempt, opened his side cockpit window at 3,500ft and 'may have gotten sick,' the report stated.
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