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"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 ...

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 22-year-old aspiring airline pilot with an “intense love and passion for flying” was killed in a small plane crash in Colorado a month after landing a gig as a commercial pilot. Niles Tilenius, 22, ...

DAYTONA BEACH — When Rafael Dubena was a young kid, he and his family would travel from Cuiabá to another rural city in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. He always looked forward to these trips, which ...

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 ...

Niles Tilenius, a 22-year-old flight instructor from San Mateo County, was set to start his first airline job next month.