{"id":770,"date":"2008-09-26T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=770"},"modified":"2008-09-26T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T12:03:00","slug":"indian-student-pilots-death-us-aircraft-to-investigate-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/09\/indian-student-pilots-death-us-aircraft-to-investigate-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian student pilots death: US aircraft to investigate crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >U<\/span>S experts will help authorities investigate a fatal light <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/09\/another-indian-student-pilot-killed.html\">aircraft crash<\/a> in Sydney&#8217;s southwest.<br \/>Air safety investigators began investigating the crash which killed a student pilot, believed to be an Indian national aged in his 20s, on a training flight on Wednesday.<br \/>The two-seater, low-wing Liberty XL-2 crashed into trees on a rural property in Willowdene Avenue, Luddenham, just after 4pm (AEST).<br \/>The crash instantly killed the trainee pilot from Bankstown&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyflighttraining.com.au\/\">Sydney Flight Training Centre<\/a>.<br \/>US aircraft and engine experts will arrive in Sydney on Friday to investigate the crash.<br \/>It was the first fatality worldwide of a Liberty aircraft, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) director of aviation safety Julian Walsh said.<br \/>&#8220;A team only arrived on site this morning, so they are really doing a preliminary explanation of the wreckage and they are also starting to do interviews with some witnesses,&#8221; he said.<br \/>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got some representatives of the aircraft manufacturer and the engine manufacturer flying out from the United States.<br \/>Mr Walsh said the Liberty XL-2 was a new model of aircraft, only registered in Australia this year.<br \/>Its pilot is believed to be an Indian national, with Fairfax newspapers reporting he arrived in Australia from Mumbai in January.<br \/>The student pilot was &#8220;doing some sort of navigational exercise&#8221;, Mr Walsh said.<br \/>Sydney Flight Training Centre at Bankstown Airport is a school which caters for students from around the world seeking their commercial pilots licence.<br \/>Founder and chief pilot of the college, former navy fighter pilot and Royal Flight Doctors pilot Barry Diamond, was unavailable for comment.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">25\/09\/08 The Age, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US experts will help authorities investigate a fatal light aircraft crash in Sydney&#8217;s southwest.Air safety investigators began investigating the crash<\/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-770","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\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}