A STUDENT pilot has been killed after the plane she was flying collided with another aircraft while they were trying to land.
Locals heard “bangs” and saw plumes of thick black smoke following the horror collision in Manitoba, Canada, on Tuesday.
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Savanna May Royes, 20, was at the controls of one plane when it collided with another.
She and another student collided when both planes were coming into land at a local flying school.
Savanna was about to receive her pilots license, a family friend posted on Facebook.
Both pilots were pronounced dead at the scene.
There were no one else on board the two planes – a four-seater Cessna 172, and a Cessna 152 aircraft, which has two seats.
Officials at the flying school do not know how the collision happened.
“We don’t understand how they could get so close together,” Adam Penner, its president, told CBC News.
Nathaniel Plett, who lives near the school, was having a coffee when he heard noises coming from the site.
“I said to my wife ‘That’s a plane crash,” he told CBC.
Plett then recalled seeing plumes of black smoke and he heard loud bangs.
Meanwhile, Lucille Plett, revealed she heard the engine cut out just moments before the crash.
She heard a crackling noise before the plane went silent.
Initially, she didn’t suspect it was anything out of the ordinary before realizing what had happened, as reported by Global Winnipeg.
“I recognized that because sometimes they do stunts around here and they turn the engine off, but they turn it back on,” she said.
US on edge over ‘cluster’ of plane crashes
A series of devastating plane crashes, including the mid-air collision above DC that killed 67, has left Americans terrified of traveling by air.
However, aviation expert and attorney Jason Matzus told The U.S. Sun the crashes can be attributed to “random clustering.”
“While these events are tragic, the likely explanation is simply ‘random clustering,’ which occurs when multiple crashes occur over a short period, warping our general perception and causing us to think that there is an increasing trend in plane crashes,” Matzus said.
“When in reality these crashes, despite being so close together, are merely coincidental and not caused by a systemic safety issue.”
The short period Matzus referred to was just a matter of three weeks. The aviation mishaps included:
January 29 – A military helicopter and American Airlines plane collided at the Washington DC airport, killing 67 people
January 31 – An air ambulance carrying a 6-year-old girl and her mom crashed on a street in Philadelphia, killing seven people in total
February 5 – A Japan Airlines flight hit a parked Delta plane at Seattle SeaTac Airport and no one was injured
February 6 – A small commuter plane on its way to Nome, Alaska, crashed killing all 10 people on board
February 10 – Motley Crue singer Vince Neil’s private jet collided with another plane, killing the pilot and injuring four others
February 17 – A Delta plane crashed on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport, miraculously killing no one but injuring 21
February 19 – Two planes collided at Marana Airport in Arizona, killing two people
February 24 – Smoke filled a Delta Airlines flight cabin forcing passengers to evacuate by a slide after making an emergency landing in Atlanta
March 9 – A Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft crashed into a retirement village parking lot in Manheim, Pennsylvania
March 13 – An American Airlines jet engine erupted into flames at the Denver airport, forcing passengers to escape onto the plane’s wing
“Next thing we heard is a big crash and a big bang… and we knew this isn’t a stunt, this is something serious.”
Savanna’s death comes just two years after she graduated high school.
“We could not be prouder,” mom Loraine gushed in a Facebook post from June 2023.
“Just like that .. four years of high school completed.
“You worked hard at achieving your goals. We can’t wait to see what awaits you.”
A cluster of plane crashes have been reported across North America already this year.
January’s collision involving an American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter was the first crash involving a commercial aircraft in 16 years.
It was the deadliest crash America had seen in almost 24 years.
Sixty four people on board the passenger plane died and the three people inside the military helicopter were killed.
Seven people were killed in a Philadelphia after a medical plane carrying a girl, who had just received life-saving treatment, crashed moments after takeoff.
The girl’s mother was also killed in the horror accident.
Just weeks after the American Airlines crash, a Delta plane flipped onto its roof when it touched down in Toronto.
The passenger plane crashed as it attempted to land in snowy conditions.
Twenty-one people were injured, but there were no fatalities.
Last week, fourteen people were injured after a skydiving plane crashed in New Jersey.
Officials revealed some of the victims were covered in jet fuel and the incident was declared a mass casualty event.
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