A two-seater trainer aircraft crashed in #Odisha's #Dhenkanal on Monday, killing a trainee pilot and her instructor, district officials said.

The trainer aircraft crashed on the tarmac at the Government Aviation Training Institute (GATI) at #Birasala in the district, soon after taking off. The deceased were identified as trainer Sanjay Kumar Jha and student Anisha Fatima.

The trainer and the student took off at around 6:30 in the morning for training on a #Cessna FA-152 VT-ENF trainer aircraft. The plane climbed to a height of 15 to 20 feet and then suddenly plunged and crashed.

Both the people on board were killed instantaneously. The bodies of both #pilots have been recovered and sent for postmortem.
The crash happened at Birasal Airstrip under Kankadahad police station limits in #Dhenkanal district.


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