He unbuckled his seatbelt and took off his headset. That was the only warning. Leandro Andrés Bertazzo was a 42-year-old flight instructor on a routine training run over Toledo, Argentina. His 22-year-old student, Rosario, was currently flying the Cessna 150. Bertazzo had flown normally with another student just hours earlier. There were no warning signs. But mid-flight, he looked at Rosario with a terrifying final instruction. “You know what you have to do, carry on.” Then he opened the cabin door and jumped to his death. Left completely alone and in profound shock, Rosario had to rely on her incomplete training to survive. She navigated the aircraft back to the runway and landed it safely without a single scratch. Investigators are still searching for answers to an emergency no pilot is ever trained for.

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