Two people are injured after a training aircraft crashed into a tree in a residential area of Philadelphia. A flight instructor was seriously injured after a Piper Pilot 100i plane lost power and went down in Fluehr Park on Wednesday afternoon. The plane’s student pilot, an off-duty cop in the city, was also injured, according to local news reports. Alex Souponetsky, the general manager of Fly Legacy Aviation, the company that owns the aircraft, was shocked at the plane’s sudden loss of power. “This is our first accident,” he told the local ABC affiliate. “We have 30 flights every day. We have a fleet of 24 airplanes. We have over 200 students with thousands of graduates.” Souponetsk conceded he has no idea why the plane lost power. An eyewitness said it was a “miracle” that the duo survived the crash, adding that he could hear one of them “screaming in pain.” Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Jeffrey Thompson said the outcome of the crash could have been “very different” had the plane crashed in a more densely populated area of the city. The incident is being probed by both the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.
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