A student pilot was trying to land a small plane at awhen it collided with another small plane, sending both aircraft crashing into a lake and killing four people, a preliminary report released Tuesday said.
A Piper J-3 Cub seaplane and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee fixed-wing plane were both conducting instructional flights when they collided March 7 over Lake Hartridge near Winter Haven Regional Airport, a National Transportation Safety Board report said. Winter Haven is about 40 milesAccording to recorded radio transmissions, the student pilot in the PA-28 was performing landing maneuvers to a runway at the nearby airport.
The student pilot killed in a midair plane collision over Winter Haven, Florida was reportedly attempting to land when the incident happened, a preliminary appraisal suggests. The Polk County Sheriff's Office previously said Faith Irene Bake, 24, a pilot/flight instructor with Sunrise Aviation, and Zachary Jean Mace, 19, a student at Polk State College, were aboard the fixed-wing plane, which was operated by Sunrise Aviation in Ormond Beach on behalf of Polk State College. Both were from Winter Haven.
24 yr old and 19 yr old