ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 190612
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| Date: | Tuesday 11 October 2016 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-34-200 Seneca |
| Owner/operator: | American Flight Academy |
| Registration: | N15294 |
| MSN: | 34-7350047 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming I0360 SER |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | East of Hartford-Brainard Airport (KHFD), Hartford, CT -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | East Hartford, CT (HFD) |
| East Hartford, CT (HFD) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On October 11, 2016, about 1530 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-34-200 twin-engine airplane, N15294, was destroyed when it impacted terrain near Hartford-Brainard Airport (HFD), Hartford, Connecticut. The flight instructor was seriously injured, and the private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was registered to International Aviation, LLC, and operated by American Flight Academy as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions existed at the airport at the time of the accident, and no flight plan was filed for the local flight that departed HFD about an hour earlier.
FBI is looking into the possibility that the aircraft was deliberately taken down by one of the two people on board, according to the authorities.
A senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told the crash appears to have been a case of suicide, not terrorism. The official said the student pilot, identified as Feras M. Freitekh, was arguing with his instructor. The flight instructor told investigators that Freitekh, a Jordanian national, was at the controls at the time of the crash.
The NTSB did not determine the probable cause of this event and does not plan to issue a report or open a public docket. The investigation of this event is being conducted under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Oct-2016 21:13 | Geno | Added |
| 11-Oct-2016 22:50 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 12-Oct-2016 17:07 | jimmywaah | Updated [Registration, Source] |
| 12-Oct-2016 17:08 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator] |
| 12-Oct-2016 17:54 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 13-Oct-2016 19:09 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Nov-2016 21:25 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Mar-2017 11:06 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 17-Aug-2018 14:29 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 17-Aug-2018 14:34 | harro | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
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