A US official familiar with the investigation of a plane crash that killed a student pilot and left his flight instructor with serious burns said the crash appears to have been a suicide attempt.
According to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity on Wednesday, the two men had a confrontation inside the cockpit of the small plane. Consequently, the instructor was not able to recover control from the trainee. It crashed near the Connecticut headquarters of a military jet engine manufacturer.
The official said the instructor depicted the student pilot as displeased about learning to be a pilot.
A law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the flight instructor is Arian Prevalla and the student was Feras Freitekh.
Prevalla, 43, is president of the American Flight Academy. Furthermore, he is a managing member of the Hartford Jet Center, according to social media pages. He is originally from Albania and now lives in Hartford.
Public records show that Freitekh lived in the Chicago suburb of Orland Hills since 2013. However, authorities there said that they found no record that he ever lived in the village.
The instructor told police detectives that it was not an accident, Hartford Mayor Marcia Leclerc said.
She said that stories change and anybody can skew information, nevertheless, they’re still waiting for the facts to come out.
The instructor and student were about to land at Brainard Airport at around 4 pm when they hit a utility pole. It then crashed onto the road and burst into flames. The crash site is across the Connecticut River, a short distance from the airport.
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