This happened in my area of TN
This morning I talked to one of the guys who searched last night...
there were alot of people out searching most of the night but he said the grass was fairly high so they might have passed him in the dark and not known it...
the 2 men were from Nashville...
It was an expertimental plane that went into a 600 foot dive..
they werent wearing seat belts nor parachutes...
the one who died either fell out or jumped out..
2 TN highway helicopters searched last night using the body heat thingy...
Some LSA classification aircraft are themselves equipped with a parachute, deployed via a very small explosive charge. The Allegro I mentioned upthread can be.
Yes—the article has been updated:
Authorities in Tennessee have found the body of a man who was thrown from an experimental aircraft while an instructor was teaching him to fly.
Bradley County Interim Fire Chief Troy Spence said search crews located the deceased student pilot at about 11:45 a.m. Saturday. He declined to release the man’s name.
Collegedale Municipal Airport employee Lowell Sterchi told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that the man was being trained by an instructor in his Zodiac 601 aircraft on Friday when the canopy came off. The instructor also was not identified.