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Six good Samaritans tried to help rescue the pilot small at the airport in southern California after the plane crashed and caught on fire, while airport staff who knew how to use the airport’s fire truck were either at lunch or did not witness the crash.
An American pilot has died after his fighter jet went down in eastern England in what witnesses described as a “huge fireball” at around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
One person was killed after a small plane crashed near an elementary school in Spring Hill, Florida on Friday.
A flight instructor and a student have died after a small plane crashed in a residential area in outside San Diego, California on Thursday, the San Diego Tribune reports. No one on the ground was hurt.Just after 9 a.m. on Thursday, neighbors heard a plane sputtering badly in Santee, just west of Gillespie Field. The small Piper Cherokee lost altitude fast and and banked sharply while trying to make a U-turn. It crashed at 9:15 a.m., landing upside down in the driveway of a residence after clipping tiles off the building, witness, Craig Lilley, recounted to NBC 7 News. “I could tell there was no way he was going to make it,” he said.The pilot died at the scene while the injured passenger was rushed to hospital. He succumbed to his injuries later that day, said Santee Fire Chief Richard Mattick.The Tribune reported that residents have filed complaints to the county regarding pilots from the Golden State Flying Club aviation school not following the designated flight pattern over the area. Students have also been cutting engines, part of the training course, over homes and schools.“We get this all the time – it was just a matter of time before this happens,” Cary Nichols, a resident that live nearby the crash site, said to the San Diego Tribune.
A pilot killed when his plane crashed into a Long Island Rail Road crossing had been directed by an air traffic controller to a non-existent runway at a closed airport, an accident investigation has revealed.