"The pilot knew the instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap whilst the pilot flew the circuit," the report states A pilot thought his flight instructor was pretending when he ...

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A pilot, whose flight instructor died after takeoff, thought he was "just pretending to take a nap," according to a report from the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch. On June 29, the ...

The student pilot was looking for a new instructor. He said he had been flying with the same one for a few months and had ...

The co-pilot of a flying instructor who died midflight thought his co-pilot was "just joking" during the ordeal, a safety report has revealed. The incident, which happened near Blackpool Airport in ...

A flying instructor died inflight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around and only realized after landing on the runway with the man slumped on his shoulder.

A 57-year-old flying instructor died from a heart attack after joining a pilot on a flight in a 1978 Piper PA-28-161 plane in England. Universal Images Group via Getty Images A flight instructor died ...

A flying instructor died during a private flight last year, according to a new safety report. The pilot thought his instructor was "just pretending to take a nap," before realizing he was dead. A UK ...

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American Airlines launched a new flight training program in 2018 intended to provide people with no experience flying planes ...

Shannon Russell, originally from South Africa, recently took off from the Torrance Municipal Airport and reached 32,049 feet ...