Posted on 07/09/2026 1:43:56 AM PDT by Duke C.
Leandro Bertazzo a flight instructor, jumped to his death from a small plane in mid-air, leaving his 22-year-old student pilot to land the aircraft alone.
The incident occurred on Monday, July 6, over Toledo, Argentina, when Bertazzo exited the Cessna C-150 while airborne, according to an article The U.S. Sun published on Tuesday, July 7.
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The headline is at least prejudicial if not deliberately deceptive because other sources report that the young woman held a pilot’s license of some sort.
I don’t know Argentina’s flight regs but most of the world just copies the US’s, and under the FARs, you can only be a “student” pilot if you have received your student’s license or are training to receive it. If you have a sport or private license (or anything more elevated), the term “student” no longer applies, even if you’re receiving dual instruction from a certificated flight instructor toward a more elevated certificate.
Which means she already had received enough dual instruction to at least know how to land the plane. Other reports mention she had “limited” flight experience, so she might only have held a student’s license but even a licensed student pilot is authorized to fly solo.
those Latin’s, they are so emotional and dramatic.
Most of the time the instructor has you taxi in, gets out and says, “You’re on our own.”
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