This Day in History: A man fell to his death on this day in 1991 after clinging to the rear landing gear on an airplane after take-off at an airport in Paducah Kentucky.
On the evening of September 30, 1991, a young man approached an airport worker named Wes Weaver at Barkley Regional Airport in Paducah, Kentucky. The man said that needed to get out West in a hurry. He asked if he could trade his jacket in exchange for a flight. Wes believed that the man may have been involved in something criminal and was running from something. He did not believe that the man was crazy, nor did he believe he was on drugs or alcohol. He just seemed desperate. Wes told him that he could not help him and asked him to leave. He stood around for awhile, then went back through the hangar and left.
"What began as an odd encounter soon evolved into a tragic and perplexing mystery. Thirty minutes after Wes's initial encounter with the man, he saw him again while driving near the airfield. He watched as the man ran across a ditch, jumped onto the airport fence, climbed over it, and ran towards a plane sitting on the runway....the man had jumped onto a plane and then fell from it to his death. No identification of any kind was found on or near the body." Source
This case was solved in 1997 when a woman saw a rerun of the episode featuring this person on Unsolved Mysteries. The man was identified as Brian Duecker and according to his family he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. "Due to his schizophrenia, he was unable to hold down a job and often thought that people were following him. He also had difficulty separating his imagination from reality. It is believed that his mental issues may explain why he acted strangely at the airport and later jumped onto the plane." Source
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