CA Training Flight Crash
Pictured: A Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk II
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Contact photographer Andrés Contador
What: Aviation Pacific Flight School Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk en route from Camarillo
Where: Ojai, California near the Krotona Institute
When: Dec 10, 2009
Who: Flight instructor and student (2 on board)
Why: An hour into a training flight, the plane crashed in a field.
The pilot was not in communication with ATC. It is presumed that there were engine troubles, that the pilot was struggling to keep the plane in the air. Witnesses report at least two incidents during the flight were the plane was observed to lose power.
A witness called 911 after seeing the plane fall right in front of him, right onto the roadway in front of his truck.”