A young flight instructor was killed during a lesson when his plane hit a utility pole in Italy and crash-landed on a street — with his teenage student found screaming in the wreckage, according to reports.
Daniel Taino, a 26-year-old pilot, died instantly and his 19-year-old passenger was seriously hurt when their two-seat Cessna 152 smashed into the ground in Valbrembo in northern Italy on Monday, according to local newspaper L’Eco Di Bergamo.
A gardener was trimming hedges when he saw the plane rapidly lose altitude before it clipped a power pole and crashed just 20 yards away. He heard the 19-year-old student’s haunting cries from the wreckage, he told the newspaper.
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