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Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Mrchippychappy(op): 6:20am On Oct 09, 2022
Swedish flight instructor, 23, is killed in Virginia plane crash after student, 18, she was teaching pointed nose too high, causing aircraft to stall and plummet into the ground

Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, 23, attended Virginia's Hampton University on a tennis scholarship, eventually becoming a flight instructor On Thursday, around 3 p.m., she and Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode, 18, got into a plane for a lesson During instruction, Oyebode pointed the nose of the plane too high, causing the plane to stall and crash into a ditch Ljungman, a licensed commercial pilot who lived in , Va., after graduation, was pronounced dead on the scene.

Oyebode, a Maryland native, and another 18-year-old male were the only other people on the plane.

They've been taken to a local hospital with what are described as life-threatening injuries.

Tragedy struck when Oyebode pointed the nose up at too steep an angle during take-off. That made the aircraft stall at around 100 feet and led the plane to crash into a ditch, according to WMAR.

Ljungman, a licensed commercial pilot who lived in Williamsburg, Va., after graduation, was pronounced dead on the scene.

Oyebode, a Maryland native, and another 18-year-old male were the only other people on the plane. They've been taken to a local hospital with what's described as life-threatening injuries.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11295237/Female-Virginia-flight-instructor-23-killed-plane-crash.html

Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman

Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Mrkumareze(m): 6:28am On Oct 09, 2022
undecided
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by adecz:
See fine woman wey this Nigerian gehl
kill☹️☹️☹️
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by FaceTanke(m):
A Maryland native


Its not Maryland Lagos

Not a Nigerian native
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Franzinni: 6:39am On Oct 09, 2022
Kai see beautiful specimen wey this Nigerian kill wey he for just come learn how to fly from Edo people ....


*Runs out of thread*
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Sheistoopretty(f):
R.I.P to her!

Watch how these f**lish yorubas and Igbos will come here and turn this to a tribal war

J*bless old f**ls grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by zeuss: 6:51am On Oct 09, 2022
Oyebode sorry but no be jet na...and even no altitude or speed to correct mistakes. RIP to Viktoria.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Sekoni003(m): 6:53am On Oct 09, 2022
Sheistoopretty:
Lol
What's funny? Some of you need to be slapped back to sanity
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by robinso01(m): 6:56am On Oct 09, 2022
Village people, your work can be sighted
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Nobody:
Rip to the to the instructor embarassed
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Kemadealadire(f): 7:06am On Oct 09, 2022
Eeyah, life happened.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Fuckgodndjesus: 7:09am On Oct 09, 2022
cry Damn so sad such a young beautiful woman gone just like that, I can only imagine what her family and friend's must be going through right now. may she rip.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Toratora: 7:09am On Oct 09, 2022
Sad
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Jakumo(m): 9:03am On Oct 09, 2022
All trainer aircraft are equipped with dual controls in which the two front seat occupants each have a flight yoke and rudder pedals they can operate alternatively to control the plane's attitude.

The only way this trainee pilot could have pulled too far back on the flight yoke and lifted the aircraft nose too high would be if the young man panicked and OVERPOWERED the corrective nose-down, yoke-forward control inputs that his female instructor was struggling to apply in order to avoid a stall. If two pilots in the same cockpit are applying OPPOSITE pressure on the flight controls, the STRONGER pilot will likely overcome the weaker pilot and gain full control of the plane, for better or worse.

In this case, the male trainee was stronger than his instructor and was thus able to hold the nose too high for long enough to stall the plane beyond any hope of recovery, making a crash a tragic certainty.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by ATEAMS: 11:33am On Oct 09, 2022
Oh no
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Potbellyman(m): 12:21pm On Oct 09, 2022
The article stated Oyebode, a Maryland native
Why op come Caption am as Nigerian
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Godfullsam(m): 1:00pm On Oct 09, 2022
RIP to the dead. She died on active duty.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by naturalwaves: 1:40pm On Oct 09, 2022
Useless report. Who gave the account of the person that raised the nose too high? The unconscious people in the hospital or the dead pilot ? What a very biased story . OP was even so daft to put the name of the Nigerian in bold .
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by hurryup123(m): 1:42pm On Oct 09, 2022
adecz:
See fine woman wey this Nigerian kill☹️☹️☹️
way this empty Yoruba brain kill
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Jakumo(m): 1:54pm On Oct 09, 2022
naturalwaves:
Useless report. Who gave the account of the person that raised the nose too high? The unconscious people in the hospital or the dead pilot ? What a very biased story . OP was even so daft to put the name of the Nigerian in bold .
The trainee pilot pulled back too violently on the yoke causing the plane to pitch upwards, depart from control and thus drop like a rock in an aerodynamic stall. That sequence of events was described in the original news story. Sorry if you are upset at yourself for missing that statement.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Mrchippychappy(op): 2:50pm On Oct 09, 2022
Jakumo:
The trainee pilot pulled back too violently on the yoke causing the plane to pitch upwards, depart from control and thus drop like a rock in an aerodynamic stall. That sequence of events was described in the original news story. Sorry if you are upset at yourself for missing that statement.
My brother you too get sense. Comprehension is not a strong point for everyone. We understand.

naturalwaves:
Useless report. Who gave the account of the person that raised the nose too high? The unconscious people in the hospital or the dead pilot ? What a very biased story . OP was even so daft to put the name of the Nigerian in bold .
No vex, please read @jakumo response
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by EHustleTv: 4:49pm On Oct 09, 2022
oMo
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Nobody:
cool


What a Life.
There are those who wants to live and who lost their lives and there are those who doesn't want to live but are living.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by MANNABBQGRILLS: 5:33pm On Oct 09, 2022
What a sad news
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Lordofalmajiri(f): 5:34pm On Oct 09, 2022
cool
Our sophisticated brothers have extended their trademark to USA... Skullarship is a must for this people no matter where or what part of the World they find themselves...
Na wa for Afonja's! grin
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Musty112: 5:35pm On Oct 09, 2022
The death from which you flee will meet you and you will be returned to the knower of the unseen and be informed of what you used to do embarassed embarassed embarassed. May Gid give the family the fortitude to bear the loss
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Irupetepete: 5:35pm On Oct 09, 2022
Nigerians always representing for bad things

Be like say some sets of elders naked swear for this country during the slave Era cos they were betrayed by their fellow Nigerians...
Cos this country just baffles me whenever I think of it
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Gentlechika(m): 5:35pm On Oct 09, 2022
Shit happens. Hope she'll get over it on time
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Adakintroy: 5:35pm On Oct 09, 2022
1_1. If you know.


Modes and instigating tribal bantas.

Modes weh claim educated go de set small children for fight up and down.
Re: Nigerian Trainee Pilot Causes Flight Accident In Virginia, Kills Instructor by Nobody: 5:35pm On Oct 09, 2022
cool
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