OK, so who knows this clown

[chuckakers 370]

Marcus Schrenker, 38, from Indiana.

According to the news reports, he owns a couple planes hangared at the Anderson, Indiana airport. Looks like he ditched his plane via parachute.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/12/florida.plane.crash/

My guess is he was trying to disappear but his plane didn't make it to th ocean. Evidence...damn.





Police: Pilot made bogus distress call before plane crash

Six-seater went down Sunday near Blackwater River in East Milton, Florida

(CNN) -- The pilot who signaled air traffic controllers that his windshield had imploded and that he was bleeding before his plane crashed faked the call and later checked into a hotel using a false name Monday, authorities said.

Authorities identified the pilot as Marcus Schrenker, 38, from Indiana. Authorities say they are looking for him.

"All indications now are that he made some type of false emergency call [and] abandoned the plane by parachute," said Sgt. Scott Haines of the Santa Rosa County, Florida, Sheriff's Office.

Haines said the pilot checked into a hotel in the Harpersville, Alabama, area under a false name.

Harpersville is 30 minutes east of Birmingham, Alabama, and about 223 miles north of Milton, Florida, near where the wrecked plane was found. iReport.com: Are you near the crash scene? Tell us what you've seen

Haines did not know the whereabouts of the pilot.

"I do not believe they have him in custody," he said.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office got a call at 2:26 a.m. from the Childersburg Police Department in Alabama saying that a white male, identified as Schrenker by his Indiana driver's license, approached a Childersburg officer at a store.

Schrenker, who was wet from the knees down and had no injuries, told the officer that he had been in a canoeing accident with friends, the Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office said in a news release.Schrenker had goggles that looked like they were made for "flying," according to the release.

The Childersburg police didn't know about the plane crash, so they took Schrenker to a nearby hotel, authorities said. When police found out about the crash, they went back to the hotel and entered Schrenker's room. He was not there, they said.

According to Santa Rosa authorities, Schrenker had checked in under a fake name, paid for his room in cash and "put on a black toboggan cap and ran into the woods located next to the hotel."

CNN could not immediately reach a representative for Schrenker. The phone number listed for his business address was disconnected. He does not have a home phone number listed.

He is listed online as president of an Indianapolis agency called Heritage Wealth Management, but no contact information for that agency was available. The address of the business is the same as the address associated with Schrenker's aircraft in aviation records.

Police in Harpersville told CNN they had no immediate comment. Federal investigators were helping in the probe.

Earlier Monday, federal investigators said they believed the pilot may have parachuted out of the Piper PA-36 aircraft before it crashed at 9:15 p.m. CT Sunday in a swampy area of Blackwater River in East Milton, Florida.

Military jets found the aircraft Sunday. The plane was lying upside down, its door open and the cockpit empty, according to Haines.

Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said a "detailed review of radar data" and the fact that the plane had switched to autopilot suggested that the pilot might have parachuted.

The pilot was the only person aboard, authorities said.

On Sunday evening, the pilot contacted air traffic controllers and told them the plane's windshield had imploded and that he was bleeding profusely, Haines said.

That call came in when the aircraft was about 35 miles southwest of Birmingham, Alabama. Controllers tried to tell the pilot to divert the flight to Pell City, Alabama, but he did not respond. The plane appeared to have been put on autopilot around 2,000 feet, Haines said.

The plane was scheduled to land in Destin, Florida, authorities said.

Military jets that first spotted the wreckage described the cockpit as empty. Bergen said the cockpit was mostly intact and the door to the aircraft was open.

The corporate plane does not have an ejection feature, and the pilot did not have a parachute when he took off Sunday from Anderson Municipal Airport in Anderson, Indiana, airport manager Steve Darlington told CNN.

Darlington described the pilot as "accomplished" and said he owns "a couple of airplanes" and flies regularly.

Helicopters, planes, boats, and dogs and rescue crews were involved in searching the area.

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[kallend 1,623]

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and the pilot did not have a parachute when he took off Sunday from Anderson Municipal Airport in Anderson, Indiana, airport manager Steve Darlington told CNN.

How would he know that?

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[halorob 0]

This guy is a genius! That means idiot right?

[ozzy13 0]

Any way we can find out if this guy had a USPA license?

That would be interesting!!!

Never give the gates up and always trust your rears!

[BillyVance 34]

He apparently parachuted down less than 30 miles from my home. Just caught the CNN news report. He's on the lam, but won't be for long I would think. Unknown territory for him.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[NickDG 23]

Except for "six seater" I'm not sure what A/C he was flying, but me and a friend of mine were out tooling around in a C-172 when the windscreen imploded.

The headliner came down over our heads and for few minutes we were like two monkeys in a burlap sack trying to get control of the A/C.

And neither of us were cut by the Plexiglas windscreen which came apart in big chunks.

But I would have killed for a pair of goggles . . .

NickD

[aykay 0]

Pfft. Everyone knows it was DB Cooper.

[JohnRich 4]

He jumped from a Piper Malibu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Malibu

That's a low-wing plane with doors hinged at the front.

If he went out the pilot door, he had to hop over the top of the wing. And getting that door open would be very difficult since it would hinge outward into the wind blast. I've done that, once, but it was with the help of a cooperative pilot side-slipping the plane to help reduce the wind blast on the door.

I see now that the rear passenger door is clamshell style, that has a bottom half opening downward and a top half opening upward. That would do the trick.

It also has a cruise speed of 215 knots. But I suppose the auto-pilot could be set for a lower speed.

The Milton, Florida, area where he jumped is full of forest with very large trees. I've done some hiking in that area. He must have trusted his spotting abilities, or otherwise he would be crazy to jump blindly in that area.

[ozzy13 0]

this guy might of been better off selling the plane and giving them them money alone with the other planes that he owns

Never give the gates up and always trust your rears!

[wayneflorida 0]

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He jumped from a Piper Malibu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Malibu

That's a low-wing plane with doors hinged at the front.

If he went out the pilot door, he had to hop over the top of the wing. And getting that door open would be very difficult since it would hinge outward into the wind blast. I've done that, once, but it was with the help of a cooperative pilot side-slipping the plane to help reduce the wind blast on the door.

I see now that the rear passenger door is clamshell style, that has a bottom half opening downward and a top half opening upward. That would do the trick.

It also has a cruise speed of 215 knots. But I suppose the auto-pilot could be set for a lower speed.

The Milton, Florida, area where he jumped is full of forest with very large trees. I've done some hiking in that area. He must have trusted his spotting abilities, or otherwise he would be crazy to jump blindly in that area.

He jumped out near Birmingham, Al.. the plane on auto pilot and crashed just north of milton FL.
Gulf of Mexico is about 35 miles away.

[quade 3]

It's a scenario I've contemplated several times. This guy just didn't plan it correctly. His first mistake; calling in the emergency to begin with. There was no reason for him to do that at all. What he -should- have done was to file a VFR flight plan to an island off the coast. Trimmed up the plane or used auto pilot for straight and level and bailed out as he was over the island. Plane could possibly fly for hundreds of miles before crashing leaving no evidence. Things like this would need to be carefully planned, but this looks like it was a spur of the moment thing.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Bertt 0]

He came pretty close to dropping a poorly-guided bomb onto Pensacola Naval Air Station or Eglin Air Force Base. Imagine the implications for general aviation if that had happened.
Billy's right about him not lasting long in the woods where he disappeared. Several years ago, a man killed his ex-wife and her new husband in view of several witnesses. He ran off and hid in the woods in central Alabama. He was a pulp wooder who had lived in the area all his life. Even though he was facing a capital murder charge, he came out and gave up after a week.

You don't have to outrun the bear.

[halorob 0]

Ghost flying the whip. Now thats gangsta! I am going to get my pilots license just so I can do this.

[DougH 270]

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Ghost flying the whip. Now thats gangsta! I am going to get my pilots license just so I can do this.

For some reason this comment made me spit my coffee out this morning!! That may be somewhat related to the fact that I was in work at 5:00 Am though.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[CSpenceFLY 1]

Yeah, if you were going to try to disappear why the fuck would anyone do it over Birmingham Alabama?

i would have bailed much closer to the coast to assure the plane went off coast. I probably would have done it over the Atlantic.

The call to ATC was not a bad idea if he wanted them to think he was dead however leaving a suicide note would have been better. That and not aiming the plane at an airforce base.

[DougH 270]

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The call to ATC was not a bad idea if he wanted them to think he was dead however leaving a suicide note would have been better. That and not aiming the plane at an airforce base.

Many life insurance policies don't pay out on suicide right?

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[DJL 232]

I'm sure there was no threat that a Sidewinder wouldn't have solved. Fox Two, bitches.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[michalm21 0]

possibly what he was going for. aim the plane at the air force base, have it blown up, no body found

[theonlyski 3]

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possibly what he was going for. aim the plane at the air force base, have it blown up, no body found

then why call in and say you are blinded??

i vote he shoulda bailed near the coast and let the plane handle itself out to sea... but then the ntsb would have come, found the plane, found it was on auto pilot and no sign of ANY human remains...

theres really no easy way to go about doing it, however, had he NOT called and started flying near the af base's airspace, they would have probably at the very least sent up an escort untill he cleared it

didnt he jump pretty low tho? 2000 feet? why get so low? bring it up for a 15k jump and you woulda given the plane more time to come down, maybe all the way to the gulf?

"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly
DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890
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[jimmytavino 16]

pretty much makes for BAD P.R. all around


just another chance
for the media and the general public to think.....idiot skydivers.
can you say ??? andrew thorton...???

jmy

[theonlyski 3]

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He jumped from a Piper Malibu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Malibu

That's a low-wing plane with doors hinged at the front.

If he went out the pilot door, he had to hop over the top of the wing. And getting that door open would be very difficult since it would hinge outward into the wind blast. I've done that, once, but it was with the help of a cooperative pilot side-slipping the plane to help reduce the wind blast on the door.

I see now that the rear passenger door is clamshell style, that has a bottom half opening downward and a top half opening upward. That would do the trick.

It also has a cruise speed of 215 knots. But I suppose the auto-pilot could be set for a lower speed.

The Milton, Florida, area where he jumped is full of forest with very large trees. I've done some hiking in that area. He must have trusted his spotting abilities, or otherwise he would be crazy to jump blindly in that area.

feel free to call me an idiot if im wrong, but that a/c only has one door...

ive looked at several pictures, and only see the one cabin door located behind the wing, no visible pilot door on either side.

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a cruise speed of 215 knots at 25,000 feet (7,600 m), 215 knots (398 km/h) at 17,500 and 188 knots (348 km/h) at 12,000 feet (3,700 m).[

so, that low, he would have been cruising no faster than 188 knots = 216mph... still hauling ass tho

"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly
DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890
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[labrys 0]

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Many life insurance policies don't pay out on suicide right?

AFAIK, most will pay, but only after a "waiting period" of a year or two after the policy is opened.

Owned by Remi #?

[kawisixer01 0]

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He jumped from a Piper Malibu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Malibu

That's a low-wing plane with doors hinged at the front.

If he went out the pilot door, he had to hop over the top of the wing. And getting that door open would be very difficult since it would hinge outward into the wind blast. I've done that, once, but it was with the help of a cooperative pilot side-slipping the plane to help reduce the wind blast on the door.

I see now that the rear passenger door is clamshell style, that has a bottom half opening downward and a top half opening upward. That would do the trick.

It also has a cruise speed of 215 knots. But I suppose the auto-pilot could be set for a lower speed.

The Milton, Florida, area where he jumped is full of forest with very large trees. I've done some hiking in that area. He must have trusted his spotting abilities, or otherwise he would be crazy to jump blindly in that area.

The article claims it's a pa-36 "brave" which is a single seater....Looking at that plane it looks like it'd be pretty easy to get out of. Just a glass canopy around the pilot.

[JohnRich 4]

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feel free to call me an idiot if im wrong, but that a/c only has one door... ive looked at several pictures, and only see the one cabin door located behind the wing, no visible pilot door on either side.

I believe you are correct. So my comment about a pilot door is void.

[pirana 0]

"Put on a black tobaggan hat and ran into the woods."

I can't stop laughing about that. Not sure if it is the meaningless reference or just the visual of the guy bounding into the woods as the solution to his situation.

Very funny.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley