{"id":1215,"date":"2010-07-28T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2010-07-28T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:16:31","slug":"nz-flight-school-closes-as-collision-probed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2010\/07\/nz-flight-school-closes-as-collision-probed.html","title":{"rendered":"NZ Flight school closes as collision probed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Feilding, NZ:<\/span> The Manawatu flight training school is closing for a period after a midair collision killed its chief flying instructor and a student.<br \/>\nThe school, based near Feilding, was in mourning after two of its aircraft collided yesterday afternoon, causing one to plunge into the ground.<br \/>\nThe accident has stunned students and the chief executive at Flight Training Manawatu, Michael Bryant.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightmanawatu.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">The flight school<\/a>&#8216;s chief flying instructor, Jessica Neeson, 27, was one of the two women who died when the single-engined Cessna training aircraft collided with another from the school.<br \/>\nThe school has praised the Indian student who managed to fly his damaged aircraft back to the aerodrome.<br \/>\nHe is one of 30 international students at the Feilding-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightmanawatu.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">flying school<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe crash comes just two weeks after another plane crash in the Manawatu which left an instructor and student seriously injured.<br \/>\nThe dead student was about halfway through completing her private pilot&#8217;s licence, and the sole survivor of the collision had almost completed his commercial pilot&#8217;s licence.<br \/>\nThe training school doesn&#8217;t know what could have been done to prevent the accident.<br \/>\n&#8220;You can have all the rules and regulations procedures in place to prevent such an incident. But occasionally things do happen,&#8221; said Bryant.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">27\/07\/10<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/national-news\/flight-school-closes-collision-probed-3675483\">TVNZ, New Zealand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feilding, NZ: The Manawatu flight training school is closing for a period after a midair collision killed its chief flying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}