A flying instructor died during a private flight last year, according to a new safety report. The pilot thought his instructor was "just pretending to take a nap," before realizing he was dead. A UK ...

"The pilot knew the instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap whilst the pilot flew the circuit," the report states A pilot thought his flight instructor was pretending when he ...

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A pilot, whose flight instructor died after takeoff, thought he was "just pretending to take a nap," according to a report from the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch. On June 29, the ...

A 57-year-old flying instructor died from a heart attack after joining a pilot on a flight in a 1978 Piper PA-28-161 plane in England. Universal Images Group via Getty Images A flight instructor died ...

The co-pilot of a flying instructor who died midflight thought his co-pilot was "just joking" during the ordeal, a safety report has revealed. The incident, which happened near Blackpool Airport in ...

A flying instructor died inflight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around and only realized after landing on the runway with the man slumped on his shoulder.

A 57-year-old flying instructor died during a circuit flight over Blackpool Airport after suffering cardiac arrest in the air last summer. According to a newly published safety report about the ...

The T-6A Texan II is a single-engine, two-seat primary military trainer aircraft capable of a maximum flight speed of 310 mph. Photo by Airman Zachary Heal/U.S. Air Force May 14 (UPI) --A U.S. Air ...

A flight instructor and her student were practicing emergency procedures before they declared a real emergency and the plane crashed, killing the instructor and seriously injuring the student, ...