{"id":878,"date":"2009-01-28T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=878"},"modified":"2009-01-28T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T07:33:00","slug":"us-flying-school-plane-crash-indians-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/01\/us-flying-school-plane-crash-indians-identified.html","title":{"rendered":"US flying school plane crash: Indians identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Oceanside:<\/span> Two men who were in a small plane that crashed into a power pole and sewage pipe in Oceanside, causing a geyser of sludge, have been identified.<br \/>Amandeep Singh, 24, was piloting a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, and Harshdeep Multani, 18, was his passenger, when the plane crashed at 10:44 a.m. Saturday near the Oceanside Swap Meet on Mission Road, east of the Oceanside Municipal Airport and about 300 yards from a residential neighborhood, according to Oceanside police and the Federal Aviation Administration.Witnesses said the plane flew low over the airport and clipped a power pole.<br \/>The four-seater plane, registered to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flycfa.com\">California Flight Academy<\/a>, also struck and broke a valve on an above-ground pipe at a sewage pumping station that spewed about 25,000 gallons of effluent, said Oceanside police Sgt. Kelan Poorman.<br \/>A 30-foot geyser of sewage rained down on rescuers as they freed the pilot, whose leg was pinned inside the plane.<br \/>It took at least 30 minutes to pull the pilot out of the plane, which was nearly wrapped around the utility pole. A witness said firefighters carefully worked to extract the pilot&#8217;s trapped leg and protect him from the sewage that was spraying over the wreckage. He said ankle-deep pools of liquid were on the ground &#8212; a mix of rainwater, raw sewage and aviation fluid &#8212; and live power lines were above the plane, making for a hazardous rescue.<br \/>Singh suffered a broken pelvis and four severed fingers. He was taken by helicopter to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where he was in fair condition.<br \/>The pilot took off from Gillespie Field in El Cajon and was heading to Torrance Municipal Airport when the crash occurred, said FAA spokesman Ian Gregor.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">26\/01\/09 San Diego 6, USA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceanside: Two men who were in a small plane that crashed into a power pole and sewage pipe in Oceanside,<\/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-878","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\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}