Post 119 - JammyD - This is all covered fairly comprehensively in Nish's autobiography 'Freefall', written under the pseudonym Tom Read. An excllent book, covering his time in the Paras as well as the Regiment, it also covers his descent into paranoid psychosis, from which it is derived there is little mystery about his parachute-less jump from the Cessna. It was almost certainly suicide.