They found the "runaway pilot"

[cali]

The guy that crashed his own plane in FL, in an attempt to fake his own death, Marcus Schrenker, has been found in FL at a campsite.

QUINCY, Fla. (AP) — An investment manager who staged a plane crash to evade the law was barely conscious and muttered the word "die" when federal agents found him bleeding from a slashed wrist, an investigator said Wednesday.

U.S. Marshals apprehended Marcus Schrenker, 38, late Tuesday night at a northern Florida campground two days after the amateur daredevil pilot apparently tried to fake his own death in a plane crash. Authorities believe he parachuted to the ground and later sped off on a motorcycle he had stashed in central Alabama.

Frank Chiumento, an assistant chief with the U.S. Marshals in Florida, said officers had to tend to Schrenker's self-inflicted gash to the wrist before he was airlifted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Schrenker was listed in fair condition early Wednesday morning.

The self-inflicted gash was "very serious at the time," Chiumento said. "He was bleeding profusely from the wounds to the left arm." Besides the slashed wrist, there was a puncture wound near his elbow.

Schrenker was semiconscious and muttering single words but appeared to resist first aid from the marshals.

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[spotbird]

1. He could have sent the plane

off into the ocean, and not risked anyone in the crash.

The guy can't even fake suicide compassionately.

[trumad]

2. The polar opposite of DB Cooper