Trainee pilot injured in light aircraft crash


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014

Receiving care: A fire and rescue department personnel attending to Shankar.

KOTA BARU: A single-engine light aircraft crash landed in an open space at a densely-populated residential area, near here, causing its 20-year-old pilot to suffer head and leg injuries.

Firemen took 15 minutes to pull M. Shankar out of the wrecked Piper Warrior II craft after they rushed there upon receiving a distress call at around 12.45pm yesterday.

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