Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I'm not really taking the other pilot's statements at face value on this.
I’m sure the investigators aren’t taking it at face value either. If his story has holes in it they’ll figure it out.
Just spitballing but it seems to me if there was criminal activity involved the most plausible statement for the living pilot to make would be the deceased went back to view the gear from the jump door and fell.