4/10/12 FLIGHT TRAINING PLANE CRASHES IN DAYTONA BEACH TRYING TO MAKE ORMOND BEACH AIRPORT AFTER A PROBLEM

Thankfully the student pilot training flight did not crash into any occupied structure, which could have happened if he tried to make it to Ormond Beach Airport. To verify this was reported to the FAA/NTSB I called the FAA the following week on their 800 number to report aircraft incicdents and it was reported but the person I spoke to said it was undetermined if the FAA or NTSB  would handle the investigation.  When the incident eventually gets logged in the link will be posted and the results monitored, which usually take a year or more.  A partial part of the N number was visible as N375L but the last digit is unknown.

The below information was from the Daytona News Journal April 10 online and the link is below:
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2012/04/10/training-flight-crash-lands-in-daytona-beach.html

Training flight crash-lands in Daytona Beach

 

DAYTONA BEACH -- A single-engine airplane crash-landed Monday in a field south of State Road 40 shortly after taking off from Daytona Beach International Airport, police said.

Sean Freeman, 27, of Port Orange, a flight instructor for Air America Flight Center, and student pilot Gregory Hill, 22, of Daytona Beach were on the plane when it landed hard, police said.

According to a police report, the pair said they took off from runway 34 at the Daytona Beach International Airport at 1:10 p.m. Ten minutes later, the plane started to experience mechanical problems and the engine began to run rough.

They tried to make it to Ormond Beach Municipal Airport but could not and decided to land the plane in a field south of State Road 40 behind the LPGA subdivision. The plane landed safely. The aircraft then hit a ditch and continued for about 40 feet and flipped, the report states.
Neither Freeman nor Hill were injured and both climbed out of the airplane, police said.
- Patricio G. Balona