{"id":1278,"date":"2010-09-16T20:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2010-09-16T20:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T20:14:48","slug":"plane-piloted-by-indian-students-makes-unexpected-landing-at-us-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2010\/09\/plane-piloted-by-indian-students-makes-unexpected-landing-at-us-airport.html","title":{"rendered":"Plane piloted by Indian students makes unexpected landing at US airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, NY: A private plane carrying two flight students from Canada landed safely at the Greater Rochester International Airport last night without notifying air traffic controllers or airport officials.<br \/>\nThe small plane, a Cessna 152, landed on the airport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s midsized runway just before 9:30 p.m., said airport director David Damelio. No one was injured.<br \/>\nCpl. John Helfer of the Monroe County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office said the two occupants \u00e2\u20ac\u201d both flight students at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyislandair.net\">Island Air Flight School<\/a> in Toronto, Canada \u00e2\u20ac\u201d decided to land in Rochester because they were low on fuel.<br \/>\nAuthorities did not release their names, but Kevin Corsaro of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Buffalo said both men were Indian citizens with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lawful status\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Canada. Both men are in their 20s, he said.<br \/>\nThe flight school is based out of the Toronto City Centre Airport.<br \/>\nThe men apparently became disoriented while in the air and flew off course, into the United States, said Corsaro .<br \/>\nThe plane had refueled in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, just before 9 p.m., and was headed for Toronto before the unscheduled landing in Rochester, Helfer said. Damelio said the men \u00e2\u20ac\u0153had very little fuel left\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when they landed.<br \/>\nHelfer said the pilot was certified for night flight.<br \/>\nThe men were questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials, Monroe County sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputies and other authorities and were released, Damelio said.<br \/>\nBoth men traveled back to Canada today.<br \/>\nDamelio said authorities are investigating the incident today. Helfer said the men are not facing any state or federal charges at this time.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">15\/09\/10 Victoria E. Freile<\/span>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/rocnow.com\/article\/local-news\/2010100915007\">ROC now, US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, NY: A private plane carrying two flight students from Canada landed safely at the Greater Rochester International Airport last<\/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-1278","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\/1278","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=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}