Searchers find body of man thrown 2,500 feet from experimental aircraft

Authorities in southeastern Tennessee on Saturday located the body of a man who fell 2,500 feet when he was thrown from an experimental aircraft while he was learning to fly from an instructor.
His body was found shortly before 8am, a spokesman for the Bradley County Sheriff’s department to NBC News.

The man was being trained by an instructor in a Zodiac 601 aircraft on Friday when the canopy came off and he fell out.
During the training flight, a malfunction caused the plane to nose dive and the canopy flew open. The
man was thrown from the plane over the East Brainerd and Apison areas of the county.
'The people inside the plane were not wearing seat belts,' EMA director, Troy Spence said. 'So when they lost control of the plane, in an attempt to regain control of the plane, the passenger was ejected.'
The instructor, who also was not identified, landed the plane later. Though he was not physically hurt, he was badly shaken after the incident.

Officials began searching for the man on Friday. The man had his cell phone and searches had pinged the mobile device to help locate him, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
WRCB reports that the Zodiac 601 belonged to Clarance Andrews, 82, who also built the plane.
He died in a plane crash last December near the Collegedale airport.
The student pilot purchased it from the Andrews family earlier this month.

 Source: Dailymail