[JYO] Leesburg Crash Article from Leesburg Today

Light Plane Crashes Near Leesburg  Airport


Nov 09, 2005 -- Loudoun County Sheriff's Office and the Virginia State Police 
are  on the scene of a fatal airplane crash in woods south of the Leesburg 
Executive  Airport.  
The report of a light aircraft, from the AV-ED Flight School, going down came 
 in at about 9:30 a.m. just after the plane took off.  
The instructor and student were both killed when the 1999 Piper Warrior plane 
 they were flying in crashed, said Airport Commission Chairman Steve Axeman 
who  was at the scene.  
The plane had returned from a morning trip to Winchester and had just touched 
 down at Leesburg's airport before taking off again. It appears they were  
practicing touch-and-go landings and departures, Axeman said.  
An eyewitness said the plane took off to the south and was making a left turn 
 as it was gaining altitude, reported Axeman.  
"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 crash occurred minutes after take off, he said, just east of Sycolin Road 
 and north of Cochran Mill Road. The first Baptist Church is nearby. No one 
was  injured on the ground.  
Virginia State Police are investigating the crash.

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