![]() ![]() Unlike the many Cocaine Bear victims in the movie, a black bear killing a human is not common. Three months later, in December 1985, they came upon a dead black bear near a duffel bag in Northern Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest. Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers began to search for Thornton's cocaine parcels, figuring there was more than the duffel bag with 35 kilos lying near his body. ![]() A key found in Thornton's pocket matched the tail number of what was left of the Cessna. The plane crashed more than 60 miles away in Tusquitee Bald Mountain in Clay County, North Carolina. Like in the movie, Thornton was wearing a bulletproof vest, khakis, and Gucci loafers. Andrew Thornton's body was discovered in the driveway of South Knoxville resident Fred Myers, not far from Knoxville's Island Home Airport. ![]() He plunged into the ground in a free fall, dying from the impact. Unfortunately for Thornton, things didn't go as planned and he failed to get his parachute to work properly, likely due to the weight of the cocaine. Leonard jumped out of the plane first and his parachute opened. ![]()
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