RALEIGH, N.C. — A 23-year-old man who “exited” a plane Friday afternoon before it made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport was found dead around 7 p.m. Friday in Fuquay-Varina, authorities said.
After a massive search that involved several municipal, county and federal agencies, the man’s body was found behind a house near Sunset Lake and Hilltop Needmore roads, Darshan Patel, operations manager for Wake County emergency management, said at a news briefing.
Friday night, the man was identified as Charles Hew Crooks of Raleigh, according to a post on the Fuquay-Varina Police Department’s Facebook page. Earlier Friday, Patel did not identify Crooks but said he was 23 years old.
