I *really* hope the pilot can shed some light on this:

Co-pilot falls from plane, dies before emergency landing in North Carolina

A small cargo plane lost a wheel during a hard landing, then continued on to fly for a while before finally doing an emergency landing that seemed to go about as well as you might hope for a cargo plane with a third of its landing gear gone. But the co-pilot *seems* to have decided to chuck himself out of the plane well before then, crashing in a yard some thirty miles from the final airport. Friggen’ *WHY*?

Was he stressed out? Was he on something? Was the initial hard landing his fault, and he knew that it would go bad for his career?