{"id":604,"date":"2008-03-23T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-03-23T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T09:33:00","slug":"crash-victims-identified-as-investigation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/03\/crash-victims-identified-as-investigation-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"Crash victims identified as investigation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >A<\/span>uthorities on Saturday identified the two victims killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/03\/us-instructor-and-indian-student-die-in.html\">Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plane crash<\/a> at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport.<br \/>Lokesh Venkat, 23, of India, was the student pilot flying the plane, and Kwang Yi, 34, of a Duluth address, was the instructor, said Floyd County Chief Deputy Coroner Tony Cooper.<br \/>Cooper said the two were pronounced dead at the scene at 4:45 p.m. Friday by Deputy Coroner Ernie Studard. Cooper said Venkat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family has been contacted and plans to fly his body back to India.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">__________________________________<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmilltimes.com\/124\/story\/109279.html\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">Student pilot from India at controls <\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmilltimes.com\/124\/story\/109279.html\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">when plane crashed<\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">Rome, Georgia: A student pilot from India was at <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">the controls of a small, two-engine plane when it <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">crashed, killing him and his flight instructor, a coroner <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">said Saturday.Lokesh Venkat, 23, who was from <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">the southern Indian city of Chennai, was living in <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">the Atlanta area temporarily while he and a group of <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">people from his country took aviation training, Floyd <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 102, 0);\"><span style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\">County chief deputy coroner Tony Cooper said.<\/span> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">23\/03\/08 Fort Mills Times, USA<\/span><br \/>__________________________________<\/div>\n<p>National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration officials arrived at the scene to conduct a preliminary investigation into the crash.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153At this stage we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for as much factual evidence as we can without making any conclusions,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Luke Schiada, senior safety investigator of the eastern region of NTSB.<br \/>The twin engine, four-seat Beechcraft BE76 <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/03\/us-instructor-and-indian-student-die-in.html\">crashed Friday<\/a> on the southern end of Richard B. Russell Regional Airport just west of Lake Geneva off Godfrey Road.<br \/>Scotty Hancock, Floyd County Emergency Management Agency director, confirmed a small amount of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153contraband\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was found inside the plane.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We did find in the pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal belongings a suspicious substance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Cooper. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have no confirmation that it was illicit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">23\/03\/08 John Bailey\/Rome News-Tribune, USA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on Saturday identified the two victims killed in Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plane crash at Richard B. 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