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菲尼克斯某航校两机，相撞一名深航学员死亡
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美国两架小型飞机在空中相撞，造成机内一名中国人死亡。事故事发地位于菲尼克斯以南约40英里（约64公里）处。
事故发生时，我正巧从旁边飞过，可惜是仪表飞行，只能盯着眼前的仪表，没能目睹外面发生了什么。不过通过当时的无线电通话，我知道这是一次非同小可的空难。
后来了解到了事故的大概情况：
Piper Cherokee撞上了Cessna150的尾部，导致CESSNA 150飞机部分解体，进入SPIN状态。CESSNA150机上有两名中国飞行学员，已经进入商照飞行阶段，应该很快就可以学成回国了。其中一名飞行学员尝试跳离驾驶舱，但最终没能逃过这一劫，机上另外一名学员受到轻伤，已经被及时送到当地的医院接受救治。据说，罹难的中国飞行学员来自于深航。事故发生后，Piper Cherokee紧急迫降，机上人员安然无恙。
听到这个消息后，大家都相当震惊，对于罹难的飞行员可以说是深表惋惜，希望他远在中国的父母能够挺过这段日子。也提醒自己以后飞行千万要多加小心。
[1 dead after small planes collide in Arizona]
PHOENIX (AP) — Two small planes collided in midair Wednesday about 40 miles south of Phoenix, sending one crashing to the ground and killing a student pilot from China who was training to fly commercial planes, officials said.
One of the two students onboard a single-engine Cessna 150 was killed when it crashed after the collision above the town of Coolidge,FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. The second student on board was airlifted to a hospital and had non-life-threatening injuries.
The pilot of the other plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee, landed the craft safely in a nearby field. Neither the student nor the instructor on board was injured.
The Cessna, on its way to Tucson from Glendale, crashed upside down in a dirt field within the city limits without its right wing or tail. Coolidge resident Seth Johnson told KTVK-TV that he saw one of the two men on board the Cessna jump to his death from the aircraft when it was about 75 feet from the ground, while he said the other was talking after the crash.
Dee Pinkston, who owns Air Safety Flight Academy, the plane's operator, said the students on board were classmates and friends from China who were training to be airline pilots, and that he was able to visit the surviving student in the hospital.
"He remembers the aircraft getting hit from the rear and hearing a noise," he said. "He had no idea another aircraft had hit him. The next thing he realized he was waking up to a paramedic cutting his seatbelt off and telling him he did a fantastic job, and thank goodness he wore his seatbelt because it saved his life."
Pinkston said the student was a little swollen and had a minor back injury and a partially collapsed lung. "They're saying he will make a full recovery," he said.
"It's amazing," he said. "Literally half of the airplane is missing. How can an aircraft fall thousands of feet and land in the desert and have a student with such minor injuries?"
He said he believes the Piper hit the Cessna from the rear based on photos of the aircraft and talks with FAA officials and the surviving student. He declined to the name the students.
Gregor said no one on the ground was hurt. Inspectors with the FAA and National Transportation Safety board were investigating.
Christine Carson, general manager of Oxford Airline Training Center in Goodyear, Ariz., which owns the Piper, declined to comment but released a statement expressing her condolences to the student who was killed and hopes for a rapid recovery of the other student on the Cessna.
事故发生时，我正巧从旁边飞过，可惜是仪表飞行，只能盯着眼前的仪表，没能目睹外面发生了什么。不过通过当时的无线电通话，我知道这是一次非同小可的空难。
后来了解到了事故的大概情况：
Piper Cherokee撞上了Cessna150的尾部，导致CESSNA 150飞机部分解体，进入SPIN状态。CESSNA150机上有两名中国飞行学员，已经进入商照飞行阶段，应该很快就可以学成回国了。其中一名飞行学员尝试跳离驾驶舱，但最终没能逃过这一劫，机上另外一名学员受到轻伤，已经被及时送到当地的医院接受救治。据说，罹难的中国飞行学员来自于深航。事故发生后，Piper Cherokee紧急迫降，机上人员安然无恙。
听到这个消息后，大家都相当震惊，对于罹难的飞行员可以说是深表惋惜，希望他远在中国的父母能够挺过这段日子。也提醒自己以后飞行千万要多加小心。
[1 dead after small planes collide in Arizona]
PHOENIX (AP) — Two small planes collided in midair Wednesday about 40 miles south of Phoenix, sending one crashing to the ground and killing a student pilot from China who was training to fly commercial planes, officials said.
One of the two students onboard a single-engine Cessna 150 was killed when it crashed after the collision above the town of Coolidge,FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. The second student on board was airlifted to a hospital and had non-life-threatening injuries.
The pilot of the other plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee, landed the craft safely in a nearby field. Neither the student nor the instructor on board was injured.
The Cessna, on its way to Tucson from Glendale, crashed upside down in a dirt field within the city limits without its right wing or tail. Coolidge resident Seth Johnson told KTVK-TV that he saw one of the two men on board the Cessna jump to his death from the aircraft when it was about 75 feet from the ground, while he said the other was talking after the crash.
Dee Pinkston, who owns Air Safety Flight Academy, the plane's operator, said the students on board were classmates and friends from China who were training to be airline pilots, and that he was able to visit the surviving student in the hospital.
"He remembers the aircraft getting hit from the rear and hearing a noise," he said. "He had no idea another aircraft had hit him. The next thing he realized he was waking up to a paramedic cutting his seatbelt off and telling him he did a fantastic job, and thank goodness he wore his seatbelt because it saved his life."
Pinkston said the student was a little swollen and had a minor back injury and a partially collapsed lung. "They're saying he will make a full recovery," he said.
"It's amazing," he said. "Literally half of the airplane is missing. How can an aircraft fall thousands of feet and land in the desert and have a student with such minor injuries?"
He said he believes the Piper hit the Cessna from the rear based on photos of the aircraft and talks with FAA officials and the surviving student. He declined to the name the students.
Gregor said no one on the ground was hurt. Inspectors with the FAA and National Transportation Safety board were investigating.
Christine Carson, general manager of Oxford Airline Training Center in Goodyear, Ariz., which owns the Piper, declined to comment but released a statement expressing her condolences to the student who was killed and hopes for a rapid recovery of the other student on the Cessna.
