Posted on Tue, Nov. 05, 2002
NTSB: Cessna collision over North Broward an accident
BY ASHLEY FANTZ
[email protected]
The National Transportation Safety Board has found in a preliminary report that the fatal plane crash on Oct. 27 over rural Northwest Broward was an accident.
The crash involved two Cessnas carrying instructors and their students over Coral Springs.
American Flying Club Inc. instructor Eduardo Pereira, 30, and his student Jamerson Coimbra, 28, of Deerfield Beach, were killed.
Airborne Systems aviation teacher Richard K. Wright, 56, of Fort Lauderdale, and his student Mohammad Farukui, 25, of Davie, walked away with minor injuries.
At about 12:45 p.m. both planes, almost exact replicas of each other, took off in clear blue skies from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Typical of flight instructors embarking on routine training exercises, neither Wright nor Pereira had filed flight plans..
Farukui and Wright were flying at 2,000 feet in a practice area over Fort Lauderdale, according to the investigation, headed by NTSB investigator John Lovell.
As part of Farukui's commercial license requirments, he and Wright were performing figure-8 exercises meant to teach multi-gear coordination and steering agility when the plane's control panel indicated they were too close to a WSBR-AM radio tower.
Farukui told the NTSB that, `all of a sudden an airplane appeared very close,` apparently from a blindspot near their craft's right wing. Pereira and Coimbra looked at he and Wright, Farukui says. To avert disaster, the planes simultaneously executed sharp right hand turns.
Pereira and Coimbra's plane flew across Wright and Farukui's windsheild.
Farukui could `feel the impact` as the other plane clipped his plane's left wing causing it to tumble and spin. The student pilot then saw Pereira and Coimbra's plane plummeting upside down about 300 feet below.
With lifesaving quick thinking, Wright took control from Farukui, made emergency calls, and landed the plane on a dirt road parallel to the Sawgrass Expressway. Pereira and Coimbra's plane was destroyed when it crashed in a rock quarry near Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in unincorporated West Palm Beach County.
NTSB: Cessna collision over North Broward an accident
BY ASHLEY FANTZ
[email protected]
The National Transportation Safety Board has found in a preliminary report that the fatal plane crash on Oct. 27 over rural Northwest Broward was an accident.
The crash involved two Cessnas carrying instructors and their students over Coral Springs.
American Flying Club Inc. instructor Eduardo Pereira, 30, and his student Jamerson Coimbra, 28, of Deerfield Beach, were killed.
Airborne Systems aviation teacher Richard K. Wright, 56, of Fort Lauderdale, and his student Mohammad Farukui, 25, of Davie, walked away with minor injuries.
At about 12:45 p.m. both planes, almost exact replicas of each other, took off in clear blue skies from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Typical of flight instructors embarking on routine training exercises, neither Wright nor Pereira had filed flight plans..
Farukui and Wright were flying at 2,000 feet in a practice area over Fort Lauderdale, according to the investigation, headed by NTSB investigator John Lovell.
As part of Farukui's commercial license requirments, he and Wright were performing figure-8 exercises meant to teach multi-gear coordination and steering agility when the plane's control panel indicated they were too close to a WSBR-AM radio tower.
Farukui told the NTSB that, `all of a sudden an airplane appeared very close,` apparently from a blindspot near their craft's right wing. Pereira and Coimbra looked at he and Wright, Farukui says. To avert disaster, the planes simultaneously executed sharp right hand turns.
Pereira and Coimbra's plane flew across Wright and Farukui's windsheild.
Farukui could `feel the impact` as the other plane clipped his plane's left wing causing it to tumble and spin. The student pilot then saw Pereira and Coimbra's plane plummeting upside down about 300 feet below.
With lifesaving quick thinking, Wright took control from Farukui, made emergency calls, and landed the plane on a dirt road parallel to the Sawgrass Expressway. Pereira and Coimbra's plane was destroyed when it crashed in a rock quarry near Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in unincorporated West Palm Beach County.
