ED Reed's brother missing after jumping into river evading police?

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Originally Posted by OneMoreTime

Much eludes you Grasshopper. How and why did that idiot die?

A plane crash.

Originally Posted by wiki

This particular aircraft had an unusual reconfiguration of the fuel selector valve handle, which had been moved from the instrument panel to behind the left shoulder of the pilot. Apparently it also had a sticky O-ring and was hard to move. Both factors may have led to Denver pushing the right rudder pedal when he turned to switch fuel tanks by moving the handle. The aircraft then entered an uncontrolled turning descent. Flying at an estimated altitude of 500 feet (150 m), he did not have time to recover. Denver's family won a lawsuit against the manufacturers of the fuel selector switch.