{"id":1219,"date":"2010-07-29T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T10:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2010-07-29T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T10:16:23","slug":"silence-about-survivor-upsets-dead-pilots-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2010\/07\/silence-about-survivor-upsets-dead-pilots-family.html","title":{"rendered":"Silence about survivor upsets dead pilot&#8217;s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Feilding, New Zea land:<\/span> The family of a flying instructor killed in a midair collision are frustrated by the lack of information about the surviving trainee pilot of the second aircraft.<br \/>\nJessica Neeson, 27, and her student Patricia Smallman, 64, did not survive the crash into a paddock near Feilding after they collided with another Cessna 152 in the uncontrolled airspace above Manawatu about 3.30pm on Monday.<br \/>\nThe Herald can reveal the as-yet-unnamed pilot as 21-year-old Indian student Manoj Kadam.<br \/>\nMr Kadam, who is weeks away from sitting his commercial licence, has been praised for his skill in landing his plane with a dead engine and missing a wheel. He was unhurt.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flightmanawatu.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Flight Training Manawatu<\/a> owner Michael Bryant refused to comment while the crash investigation was in progress, and was disappointed that the student&#8217;s identity had been revealed.<br \/>\nHer uncle Richard Neeson said it was hard not even knowing the pilot&#8217;s name.<br \/>\nMr Neeson said that while nothing would bring his niece back, it would be nice to put a face to the other pilot &#8220;instead of Mr Nobody&#8221;.<br \/>\nInitial reports that he was one of Ms Neeson&#8217;s flying students were wrong, he said. The family knew only that he was from India.<br \/>\nMr Neeson said family were told the crash investigation could take up to six months.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">29\/07\/10 Rachel Tiffen<\/span>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10661974\">nzherald.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feilding, New Zea land: The family of a flying instructor killed in a midair collision are frustrated by the lack<\/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-1219","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\/1219","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=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}