Details emerge about Virginia plane crash that killed 23-year-old flight instructor and injured student pilot

An investigation at a Virginia airport has revealed {that a} pupil pilot was flying a small airplane when it crashed, killing the flight teacher, Virginia State Police mentioned in an announcement Friday. The crash occurred upon takeoff Thursday afternoon on the Newport Information-Williamsburg Airport.

The one-engine Cessna 172 was piloted by Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode, 18, state police mentioned. Throughout takeoff, Oyebode tried to tug the craft up at too steep of an angle. That precipitated the engine to stall within the air, and the plane crashed. It had reached an altitude of about 100 toes.

Oyebode, of Hanover, Maryland, suffered critical accidents and was taken to a hospital, state police mentioned. The flight teacher who died was Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, 23, of Williamsburg, Virginia. One other 18-year-old male pupil who was on board was additionally taken to a hospital.

Ljungman, a Hampton College graduate, shared her love of flying on her Instagram account “viktoriathepilot” the place she posted photos from the cockpit. One put up reveals she received her flight teacher license this April.

Charlie Hudson, a former tennis participant at Hampton, advised the Each day Press that he was associates with Ljungman, who had competed on the ladies’s tennis workforce.

“I bear in mind once I first met her, that is all she ever needed to do. She needed to be a business pilot,” Hudson advised the newspaper.

Hampton College graduate Anastasiia Romanova-Hill advised CBS affiliate WTKR-TV  that a number of years in the past Ljungman, a local of Sweden,  reached out to her on Fb as she was attempting to find out which school to attend.

“She’s positively a form one who was curious and needed to find new issues,” mentioned Romanova-Hill.