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Man jumps from plane without chute

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Man jumps from plane without chute

AN American man has died after jumping from a skydiving plane without a parachute.
Police said it was no accident and that Sloan Carafello, 29, committed suicide, the Associated Press reported.

Mr Carafello was an observer on the plane when he leapt out behind three skydivers at an altitude of 3000m in New York state on Saturday.

He landed on a house in a rural town west of Albany, severely damaging it, police said.

Mr Carafello had unnerved some of his supermarket co-workers by frequently asking them: "If you had to die, would you rather jump off a building or jump out of a plane without a parachute?'' Dave Bilili, an assistant manager at the store, told the Times Union of Albany.

Police said Mr Carafello committed suicide.

"It could have been one of two things, accident or suicide, and we ruled out accident,'' police spokesman Mario DiCristofaro said.

A post-mortem examination on Sunday found Mr Carafello died of massive trauma.

Pilot Bob Rawlins, who also owns the skydiving company, said Mr Carafello had asked to go up so he could take pictures for a school project.

A videographer on board captured images of Carafello leaving the plane, which he gave to police.

"It's not the easiest thing to see,Mr '' DiCristofaro said.

"He comes out of the plane and starts falling.''

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Sloan Carafello leap without parachute ruled suicide

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A MAN who jumped out of a plane without a parachute - smashing in the roof of this house (right) when he landed - committed suicide, police said today.

Sloan Carafello died on Saturday after falling 10,000 feet onto the house near the Duanesburg Airport in New York State.

The 29-year-old from Schenectady, who had joined the skydiving flight as a non-jumping observer, horrified the pilot and witnesses by hurling himself out of the single engine plane in the parachurtists' wake.

Witnesses said the pilot was about to shut the door after the skydivers jumped, when Carafello lunged forward.

An autopsy on Sunday found that the cause of death was massive trauma, and State Police said the death was ruled a suicide.

Carafello's grocery store co-workers said that he asked them frequently in recent months, "If you had to die, would you rather jump off a building or jump out of a plane without a parachute?"
Police found Carafello's body next to a house with a damaged roof in a rural town 24 kilometres west of Albany.

"It could have been one of two things, accident or suicide, and we ruled out accident," state police investigator Mario DiCristofaro said Monday.

DiCristofaro would not provide further details of the investigation. An autopsy said the cause of death was massive trauma.

Carafello had lived at a YMCA since August, said Louis Magliocca, the residence director. He said investigators searched Carafello's room, but did not find a suicide note.

Bob Rawlins, who owns the skydiving company and was the pilot on Saturday, said Carafello had asked to take a ride so he could take pictures for a school project. A videographer on board captured images of Carafello leaving the plane and turned it over to police.

"It's not the easiest thing to see," DiCristofaro said. "He comes out of the plane and starts falling."

Police said they will not release the video.

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