{"id":363,"date":"2007-10-29T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=363"},"modified":"2007-10-29T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T07:56:00","slug":"indian-student-pilot-swedish-flight-instructor-die-in-florida-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/10\/indian-student-pilot-swedish-flight-instructor-die-in-florida-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian student pilot, Swedish flight instructor die in Florida crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Boynton Beach, FL<\/span>: A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/palmbeach\/sfl-flpplane1029pnoct29,0,3839331.story\" target=\"_blank\">plane crash<\/a> in a gated golf community in suburban Boynton Beach that killed two men and critically injured a third Saturday night left authorities scrambling Sunday to notify families across the globe.<br \/>The closest relatives for Anders Selberg, a 46-year-old flight instructor from Port St. Lucie who died, are in Sweden. The family of two trainees &#8211; 18-year-old Arjun Chhikara, who also died, and 38-year-old Chandrashekhar Godghate, who remains hospitalized &#8211; are in India.<br \/>National Transportation Safety Board officials from Washington assumed control of the wreckage of the single-engine Piper on Sunday afternoon. Though the plane&#8217;s distress call came in to the Palm Beach International Airport as engine failure, the NTSB will make the official ruling on what caused the crash.<br \/>The plane smashed into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/palmbeach\/sfl-flpplane28a.cav20071028064028,0,6864953.photo\">one of the greens on the golf course<\/a>, which is surrounded by single-family homes and condos.<br \/>The instructor and trainees were with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flight101.com\/\">Kemper Aviation<\/a>, a flight school based at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lantanaairport.com\/\">Lantana airport<\/a>. On its Web site, Kemper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flight101.com\/indian-students.html\">lists an office in India<\/a> .<br \/>The two crash victims from India were not related and were only in town for the flight lessons, Barbera said. They stayed at an apartment in Lake Worth.<br \/>Selberg was a certified flight instructor, ground instructor and airline transport pilot, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.<br \/>To further complicate an expansive web of locations connected to the crash, the plane is registered to Day Trippin Airlines of Olathe, Kan. Barbera said investigators did not know why.<br \/>The plane took off Saturday from the Lantana airport, flew to Opa-locka and was returning to Lantana when it sent out a distress call at 8:15 p.m. The crash site was less than 5 miles from the Lantana airport. The Piper flipped over on impact, said Barbera, the sheriff&#8217;s spokeswoman.<br \/>She said investigators initially could not spot the wreckage from the sheriff&#8217;s Eagle helicopter, but then heard the telltale beep of the plane&#8217;s beacon, a device designed for emergencies.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">29\/10\/07 Allyson Bird\/Palm Beach Post, USA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boynton Beach, FL: A plane crash in a gated golf community in suburban Boynton Beach that killed two men and<\/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-363","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\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}