Two brothers from India, Arlington man, die in training flight crash in Texas

A single-engine airplane took a nose dive into a hayfield late Tuesday in southwest Hood County, killing a flight instructor from Arlington and two brothers from India, according to reports.
The crash of the 1964 Beechcraft Bonanza C33 was reported at 9:30 p.m. off Farm Road 56, 3½ miles south of Tolar, said Trooper Dub Gillum, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Casey Brinegar, 26, the flight instructor, and Kartik Kalaichelvan, 22, the student, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, Gillum said.
Pratik Kalaichelvan, 19, the student's brother, was taken by helicopter to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth where he later died, Gillum said.
The cause of the crash was unknown Wednesday morning, but federal aviation officials were investigating, Gillum said. A witness, however, told investigators that the engine of the four-seat airplane sounded rough, and then it dove, nose first, said Lynn Lunsford, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
"We believe it to be a training flight," Gillum said.
Gillum and Lunsford both said that investigators had not yet determined who was piloting the plane. Lunsford noted, however, that flight instructors are always "in command" of aircraft when a student is aboard.
14/07/10 Bill Miller/Star-Telegram

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