w1ld wrote:
] ] An elderly man recently diagnosed with a brain tumor
] ] leaped to his death from a vintage airplane he rented to
] ] celebrate his 88th birthday, officials said Tuesday.
] ]
] ] Joseph Harold Frost took off his safety belt at 300 to
] ] 400 feet, stood up in the open cockpit of the two-seat
] ] biplane and went over the side Monday.
] ]
] ] "I think that was Dad's idea, to go out in a flash of
] ] glory," said Robert Frost, who had helped his father
] ] arrange the chartered flight on a biplane similar to the
] ] ones the elder Frost flew in World War II.
] ]
] ] The man landed on an apartment patio, horrifying those
] ] who witnessed it.
] ]
] ] "I saw him hit the power lines, heard trees breaking. I
] ] really thought it wasn't real," Cynthia Lankford said.
]
] Im not sure that is a flash of glory.

Oh its a flash alright.....a flash probably happened as the body hit the power lines on the way down;)

RE: Ill senior dies in jump from birthday biplane flight