{"id":954,"date":"2009-05-27T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=954"},"modified":"2009-05-27T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:46:00","slug":"ntsb-releases-report-about-fatal-march-2008-plane-crash-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/05\/ntsb-releases-report-about-fatal-march-2008-plane-crash-in-rome.html","title":{"rendered":"NTSB releases report about fatal March 2008 plane crash in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >A<\/span> flight instructor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to maintain control of the aircraft during a simulated engine failure contributed to the death of both of him and a student pilot during a March 2008 plane crash in Rome, the National Transportation Safety Board has reported.<br \/>Lokesh Venkat, 23, of India, was the student pilot flying the plane, and Kwang Yi, 34, of a Duluth address, was the instructor, when the plane crashed March 21, 2008, at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport in Armuchee.<br \/>Yi had a lack of total experience as a multi-engine flight instructor, according to the report. He had received his certificated flight instructor rating about three weeks prior to the crash.<br \/>The flight school reported that Yi had accumulated approximately 827 total hours of flight experience, including 111 hours in multi-engine airplanes, all in the same make and model as the twin-engine Beech\u00c2\u00adcraft BE-76 that crashed.<br \/>Venkat was receiving instruction toward a multi-engine airplane rating. According to the NTSB report, the training syllabus for the flight included introduction to engine failures on takeoff and initial climb.<br \/>The four-seat Beechcraft crashed on the southern end of the airport just west of Lake Geneva off Godfrey Road.<br \/>All major parts of the airplane were accounted for at the accident site.<br \/>Yi was flying for Aviation Atlanta Inc., which held the registration for the plane, when it crashed. The company declined to comment Tuesday when contacted by the Rome News-Tribune.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">26\/05\/09 Kaitlin Beard\/Rome News Tribune, USA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flight instructor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to maintain control of the aircraft during a simulated engine failure contributed to the death of<\/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-954","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\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}