[JYO] Flight instructor Craig Schulz and student pilot Peter Jesinsky...

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Craig Schulz
 
 
 Nov 09, 2005 -- [Updated] Flight instructor Craig Schulz and student pilot 
Peter  Jesinsky were killed Wednesday morning when the plane they were flying 
crashed  in the woods south of the Leesburg Executive Airport, confirmed Police 
Sergeant  Terry Licklider.  
The 1999 Piper Warrior airplane, with tail number 4171T, took off from the  
Leesburg Airport heading south and was banking to the left, said Airport  
Commission Chairman Steve Axeman who was at the scene shortly after the plane  
went 
down.  
"Instead of doing a nice normal bank, [the plane] continued to bank to a  
complete perpendicular position to the earth," Axeman said.  
It "looked like an aero dynamical stall," he said. "Why he got in that  
position, we don't know." The plane crashed around 9:30 a.m., just east of  
Sycolin 
Road and north of Cochran Mill Road near the first Baptist Church. No  one 
was injured on the ground.  
It appears they were practicing touch-and-go landings and departures, Axeman  
said. They may have flown to Winchester earlier that morning.  
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, Virginia State Police and the National  
Transportation Safety Board responded to the scene; NTSB is handling the  
investigation.  
Brian Rayner, an air safety investigator with NTSB, said all the major  
components of the airplane were there and had been documented. He said the 
plane  
was flying visually in the traffic pattern and it appeared the pilots werenât 
 
using instruments.  
Because of the wooded location, NTSB will transport the plane to a Delaware  
facility for further investigation, Rayner said.  
The Federal Aviation Administration has reviewed the planeâs records and is  
looking at the weather conditions, Rayner said. The pilotâs record and  
certifications are being reviewed, he said.

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