{"id":603,"date":"2008-03-23T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=603"},"modified":"2008-03-23T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T06:55:00","slug":"us-instructor-and-indian-student-die-in-georgia-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/03\/us-instructor-and-indian-student-die-in-georgia-plane-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"US instructor and Indian student die in Georgia plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Rome, Georgia, US<\/span>: Two Atlanta-area residents were killed today when the twin engine plane crashed near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaskydivingcenter.com\/rbrabout.html\">Richard B. Russsell Regional Airport<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rome,_Georgia\">Rome<\/a>.<br \/>Deputy Coroner Ernie Studard confirmed the victims were two males, but said he could not release their names.<br \/>The FAA lists the plane as being registered to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationatlanta.com\/\">Aviation Atlanta<\/a> in Chamblee. A witness said an instructor and a student were in the plane.<br \/>Chief Deputy Coroner Tony Cooper said the instructor was from Duluth and the student was from India. He said names probably won&#8217;t be released until Saturday.<br \/>The plane went down near Godfrey Road, at the southern end of the airport, near a local pond.<br \/>Kathleen Bergen, public information officer for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said the four-seat Beechcraft BE76, crashed on takeoff and burned.<br \/>Mike Mathews, manager of the Rome airport, said the plane is based out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdkairport.org\/index.asp\">Peachtree DeKalb Airport<\/a>. He said he saw the plane fall shortly after it took off.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I saw them nose down and try to come back to the runway and it came straight down into the trees,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>He said planes often come to Rome from Atlanta for training because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easier to make approaches and not so busy.<br \/>The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will be on the scene Saturday, and the Floyd County Police Department will secure the scene overnight.<br \/>Local pilot Howie Lowden, who is also a member of the Floyd County Airport Commission, said the Beechcraft Duchess is an inexpensive plane to fly, and is commonly used to teach pilots, he said.<br \/>Andrew Mallis, a local helicopter pilot, said he flew over the wreckage before the fire department arrived. He said there were visible flames and people were working to douse them. He said by 5:30 p.m. the fire was nearly out. The plane did not hit any homes near the airport.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">21\/03\/08 Calhoun Times,  United States<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, Georgia, US: Two Atlanta-area residents were killed today when the twin engine plane crashed near Richard B. Russsell Regional<\/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-603","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\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}