Embry-Riddle students were involved in fatal plane crash, school says on May,Tuesday 22nd 2018

n Embry-Riddle student died and his instructor seriously injured in a plane crash Tuesday night in the Spruce Creek Fly-In gated aviation community in Port Orange, the school said.

Nandish Patel, a 22-year-old senior at the school, was pronounced dead on scene. The instructor, Chase Zinn, 23, is receiving care at Halifax Health Medical Center.

The accident happened around 7:30 p.m. on the community's north side, in the 2500 block of Taxiway Echo. The plane, owned by Zinn’s family, narrowly missed a house, deputies said.

No one was hurt on the ground.

Zinn graduated from the school last year, a spokesman said. Patel, originally from India, transferred from Easter Florida State College.

“The families of Nandish and Chase are close in our thoughts and hearts,” Embry-Riddle spokesman James Roddey said.

The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration will investigate.

This is the second fatal crash involving an Embry-Riddle student since April.

On April 4, a student and pilot examiner with the FAA died in a crash near Daytona Beach.


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Embry-Riddle students were involved in fatal plane crash, school says