NTSB investigating after mysterious death of co-pilot who exited plane in mid-air in North Carolina

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は...

航空事故の場合、米国ではNTSB(National Transportation Safety Board) 国家運輸安全委員会なる第三者機関によって調査されます。

今日の題材はその実例です。

今回は、Co-Pilotの不可思議な飛行中の死亡の件に触れています。

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The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that it has launched an investigation after the co-pilot of a small cargo plane died Friday after falling from the aircraft in North Carolina before it made an emergency landing.

CBS affiliate WNCN-TV reported that the body of the co-pilot, 23-year-old Charles Hew Crooks, was found in a backyard in the town of Fuquay-Varina, about 30 miles south of the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. He did not have a parachute.

The pilot made an emergency landing at the airport Friday afternoon after reporting that one of the wheels had come off the landing gear of the CASA 212-200 airplane. He was treated and released from a hospital with minor injuries.