Rahul's dream was to soar high

Mumbai: Rahul Sharma’s dream was to soar high, and he died in pursuit of it. The 20-year-old youth from Mumbai died in a plane crash in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday.
Sharma, who was undergoing pilot training at the Sydney Flight Training Centre, died during one of his test flights. This is the second mishap since August, in which a trainee pilot died in a crash during tests.
According to the Spring Valley police, Australia, Rahul died after his single-engineLiberty XL2 crashed on a farmland in Sydney’s Luddenham suburb on Wednesday. He had taken off from the Bankstown airport at 2.30 pm.
Rahul was undergoing pilot training at the centre in Bankstown, about 30 km from the Sydney central business district, since January. Sharma’s family in India had been notified about the mishap, said sources.
“Shortly after 4 pm, emergency services received reports of a light plane that had crashed into trees on a property in Willowdene Avenue, Luddenham. Upon arrival, the emergency services personnel located the sole male occupant died inside the wreckage,” a local police officer said.
26/09/08 Daily News & Analysis