• Training aircraft crashes in Daytona Beach, Florida, killing 2
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2 killed in ERAU training flight plane crash west of Daytona Beach A Federal Aviation Administration pilot examiner and a student pilot were killed when an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University plane crashed during a training flight Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Daytona Beach International Airport, officials said. The plane crashed about 25 yards west of Tomoka Farms Road, near the Daytona Flea & Farmers Market. Emergency calls came in at 9:54 a.m. with witnesses saying they saw a wing fall off a plane before it crashed. The wing was across Tomoka Farms, to the east and 150-200 yards from the rest of the mangled fuselage. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Fan Boggs said at the scene that a press briefing will be at 9 a.m. Thursday near the crash scene. I go to the school this plane was from and there's been a lot of rumors about what could've happened, information's still coming out but the likely cause so far is a mechanical fault on the wing. The crash location is a only couple miles from where the dense tourist areas here begin, as tragic as this is it's fortunate this wasn't a lot worse.
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