FOXNews.com: 2,500-FOOT FALL:Search for Pilot Ejected From Experimental Plane

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2,500-FOOT FALL:Search for Pilot Ejected From Experimental Plane Mar 30th 2013, 16:48 Published March 30, 2013 FoxNews.com This photo shows a Zodiac 601 aircraft similar to the one involved in Friday's incident.FAA Authorities in southeastern Tennessee are searching for a man who was thrown from an experimental aircraft while he was learning to fly from an instructor. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that police in Collegedale and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office on Friday were searching the ground for the man, who has not been identified. Collegedale Municipal Airport employee Lowell Sterchi said the man was being trained by an instructor in his Zodiac 601 aircraft at about 2,500 feet when the canopy came off. The man's seat belt was not fastened and he was thrown out from the plane over the East Brainerd and Apison areas of the county. The plane took off from the airport on Friday afternoon. It's not clear how long the plane was in the air before the man was ejected.  The trainee pilot had his cellphone on him when he was thrown from the plane, according to the newspaper.  Authorities are reportedly trying to locate the GPS signal from the phone in hopes of finding the body in surrounding woods and fields.  Sterchi said the instructor, who Sterchi would not identify, landed the plane and was not physically hurt. Sterchi said the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been notified. Click for more from the Chattanooga Times Free Press FoxNews.com's Cristina Corbin and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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