Federal Aviation Administration

Chinese student pilot killed in propeller accident at Castle Airport

By Dan Winther / Castle Air Force Base, Cessna 150 airplane, Chinese student pilot, Federal Aviation Administration, flight student killed, Jim Murray, Merced County Sheriff’s Department, Sierra Academy of Aeronautics, Sierra Flight School, student pilot died, Tom MacKenzie, Visalia

A 26-year-old Chinese student pilot of Sierra Flight School at Castle Air Force Base was killed on Saturday when he ran into the spinning propeller of his Cessna 150 airplane. The whirring propeller struck him in the head which caused his death immediately. The Merced County Sheriff’s Department said the student pilot, was from China. …

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A mail from American School of Aviation student.

By Dan Winther / American School of Aviation, Commercial Pilot License, Commercial Pilot Training Programme, Federal Aviation Administration, Manpreet 'Prince' Singh, Reny

I am Bhavana Naik. On 26th June, 08 there was an open meeting at the Barracks of American school of aviation , and so me and my sister who had paid $17,000/- to ASA had gone to attained the meeting. Singh was talking to the students that FAA had called him and asking him “sir …

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