Three people have been killed during a mid-air collision between two aircrafts in training, near St Petersburg in Russia today.
A Piper PA-28 hit a Cessna-150 aircraft that was flying without passengers, according to reports. Three adults on the Piper were killed, and the pilot of the Cessna was hospitalised after making a miraculous emergency landing with a broken chassis and hull damage.
Reports that a child had survived the horror were not confirmed. The pilot of the single-engine Piper was identified as 39-year-old Nikolay Ivanov.
A woman named Irina, 29, was also killed in the crash. "A plane crashed on take off near Gostilitsy airport in Lomonosov district. "There were four casualties, three of them died,” a source from the Russian
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