{"id":757,"date":"2008-09-09T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=757"},"modified":"2008-09-09T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T10:24:00","slug":"trainee-pilot-flying-instructor-killed-in-aircraft-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/09\/trainee-pilot-flying-instructor-killed-in-aircraft-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Trainee pilot, flying instructor killed in aircraft crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Hyderabad:<\/span> A single-engine aircraft &#8211; Cessna-152<br \/>(VTEMR)- crashlanded in the thickly populated Subashnagar area in Sanatnagar here at around 11.09 am resulting in the death of assistant flight instructor Captain Neeraj Jain (24) and trainee pilot P Srinivas of the AP Aviation Academy on Monday morning.<br \/>Srinivas was charred to death in the aircraft, while Jain died on the way to hospital. Jain was from Gurgaon in Delhi, while Srinivas was a resident of Sainikpuri in the city.<br \/>Begumpet airport director R K Singla told \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTOI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that according to Air Traffic Control (ATC) records the two-seater aircraft took off at 11.07 am from the Begumpet airport and lost contact with the ATC at 11.09 am. &#8220;We are yet to ascertain the reason for the accident,&#8221; he said.<br \/>A team of officials from the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) would go into the cause of the accident, police said.<br \/>Eyewitnesses said the aircraft hurtled down and hit an electric pole before hitting the ground. The tail of the aircraft, however, got stuck in a nearby building.<br \/>According to officials, the aircraft might have developed a technical snag and hit a high-tension powerline in the process of attempting an emergency landing at an idgah in Subhashnagar. However, the aircraft missed the open land, hit an electric pole and a building and crashed in an alley, right behind a Ganesh pandal. The panic-stricken residents ran for safety soon after the crash. A wing of the aircraft fell on the rooftop of a building. One of the local youths sustained minor injuries while trying to douse the aircraft fire by pouring buckets of water. P Vinod Kumar, who was among the first to reach the accident spot, said: &#8220;..I rushed out and saw the crashed aircraft. While one person (Srinivas) was completely burnt, another (Neeraj Jain), with folded hands, pleaded for help.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I tried to cut fuel supply of the aircraft as there were chances of an explosion. At the same time, I tried to rescue the man. However, within few seconds, he came out of the wreckage, but he was badly burnt,&#8221; he added. In fact, a major mishap was averted as there was no power supply in the area at the time of the accident.<br \/>The AP Aviation Academy uses three Cessna-152s and a Cessna-172 for training. The academy has been using the Cessna-152 for the past 20 years. A senior official of the academy said based on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcemergency located transmission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (ELT), the reason for the accident could be known. &#8220;The ELT will help during the investigation,&#8221; he replied to a query.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">09\/09\/08 Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A single-engine aircraft &#8211; Cessna-152(VTEMR)- crashlanded in the thickly populated Subashnagar area in Sanatnagar here at around 11.09 am<\/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-757","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\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}