So what actually happened to the dead air pilot?

[Bakim]

At the end of dead air we escaped a "burning city" and at the beggining of blood harvest we are in a foggy forest with no explanation how we got there, the pilot isn't mentioned, his plane is nowhere to be found. Curiously, every other NPC has a explained fate:

No Mercy - News 5 chopper - Dead, thanks to unused lines and the beggining of crash course

Dead Toll - John and Amanda Slater - Alive, thanks to the sacrifice comic

Blood Harvest - APC Driver - Dead, explained in the sacrifice comic

[The 9ᵗʰ Survivor]

There is one more campaign after "Dead Air", it is called "Damit", and it was launched by TRS unofficially in 2016, they cannot add the campaign to the original game, because VALVE has control of the game, so only VALVE can update the game.

[Bakim]

Originally posted by Ţĥє 9ᵗʰ Śųяvΐ√øҐ:

There is one more campaign after "Dead Air", it is called "Damit", and it was launched by TRS unofficially in 2016, they cannot add the campaign to the original game, because VALVE has control of the game, so only VALVE can update the game.

And? Is the fate of a pilot explained there?

[Jam1511]

Originally posted by ☢︎Zorga:

Originally posted by Ţĥє 9ᵗʰ Śųяvΐ√øҐ:

There is one more campaign after "Dead Air", it is called "Damit", and it was launched by TRS unofficially in 2016, they cannot add the campaign to the original game, because VALVE has control of the game, so only VALVE can update the game.

And? Is the fate of a pilot explained there?

The fate of the pilot is still unknown. VALVE should finish this Dam It campaign,the last missing piece.
https://left4dead.fandom.com/wiki/Orchard

[FoxTail]

The fate of the Dead Air pilot is confirmed in The Sacrifice comic. Aparently, the plane crashed. So it's assumed that he died during the crash

[Vermilion Knight]

Originally posted by ☢︎Zorga:

At the end of dead air we escaped a "burning city" and at the beggining of blood harvest we are in a foggy forest with no explanation how we got there, the pilot isn't mentioned, his plane is nowhere to be found. Curiously, every other NPC has a explained fate:

No Mercy - News 5 chopper - Dead, thanks to unused lines and the beggining of crash course

Dead Toll - John and Amanda Slater - Alive, thanks to the sacrifice comic

Blood Harvest - APC Driver - Dead, explained in the sacrifice comic

I think I also recall the Helicopter pilot in No Mercy with a bite wound on his hand which is kind of a secret if you look at the model when you get into the helicopter. He was most likely going to die because of that lol.

It would be an awesome change if the pilot was also immune and left in another way. Seems like everyone else just dies.

[MoistDev]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAPtgH07AU8&ab_channel=MoistGameplays

heres my old gameplay of it, the audio is a little jank but you start out in the plane

[UmbralPenumbra]

Officially there's no answer
Unofficially from the tid bits we have, it's very likely that he died / was zombified at some point

[Phantom]

Zoey probably killed him, and Francis is mocking her about it again.