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Friends of the young flight instructor who died in a plane crash in Virginia Thursday said her lifelong dream was to become a commercial pilot and called her a legend for working toward it. Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, 23, died in the crash when an 18-year-old student pilot she was instructing pulled the small plane up at too steep an angle at takeoff — which caused the engine to stall and the aircraft to plummet from about 100 feet. “I remember when I first met her, that’s all she ever wanted to do. She wanted to be a commercial pilot,” Charlie Hudson, who played tennis with Ljungman at Hampton University, told the Daily Press.

The single-engine Cessna 172, carrying Ljungman, the student pilot Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode and another unidentified 18-year-old student, crashed around 3 p.m. in a ditch at Newport News-Williamsburg Airport.

the student pilot Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode

>Friends of the young flight instructor who died in a plane crash in Virginia Thursday said her lifelong dream was to become a commercial pilot and called her a legend for working toward it. Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, 23, died in the crash when an 18-year-old student pilot she was instructing pulled the small plane up at too steep an angle at takeoff — which caused the engine to stall and the aircraft to plummet from about 100 feet. “I remember when I first met her, that’s all she ever wanted to do. She wanted to be a commercial pilot,” Charlie Hudson, who played tennis with Ljungman at Hampton University, told the Daily Press. >The single-engine Cessna 172, carrying Ljungman, the student pilot ***Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode*** and another unidentified 18-year-old student, crashed around 3 p.m. in a ditch at Newport News-Williamsburg Airport. >#the student pilot ***Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode***

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Perhaps this information could shed more light on the capacity of the student.

Go to-https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch//processDisclaimer.jis

Type in the student's name. See if you can make heads or tails of the guardianship court case mentioned involving the student. Look at the names of all the involved parties and their attorneys.

In reply to some of the other comments in this thread- Training other new pilots is a common way to build flying hours in the hopes of becoming an airline pilot. It is all about hours in the air and experience. It is expensive to fly; so you want to build hours by having someone else pay you to fly and build your hours.

The difference between over rotation and really over rotation in a takeoff scenario with three people on board a C172 is probably a few degrees. An instructor pilot allows some latitude as a student "finds their way" and will allow a student to get into a little bit of a difficult situation as a learning experience; this is common in any field. Now if the student "locks up" or "freaks out" that's another story. Consider this scenarioThink of two equally matched people physically; both in size and strength; they are the student and instructor. To climb out with the dual control C172 both the pilot (student in left seat) and instructor (pilot in command in right seat) are setting the same in relation to the essentially identical control yolks. The student over rotates because he pulls back too far and too hard on the yolk. The instructor had their hand (really only need one to fly comfortably; the other should be covering the throttle quadrant) on the yolk. The student already had both hands on the yolk and after making a mistake locks up and instinctively pulls back into their self; they pull as hard as they can with both arms and hands while grasping the yolk (student is doing a dumbbell curl.) The instructor's yolk is now back in their chest; they have to instantly place both hands on the yolk and push away (bench press with the bar right on their chest.) In this scenario with a panicked student and two equally strong people trying to control the yolk the one pulling will overpower the one pushing.

Now lets go one further The boar in the left seat even if equal in weight and stature has muscles that are comprised of different cell types and performance capability than the sow in the right seat. And of course if the boar outweighs the sow and has all the other expected elements of stature by comparison the sow had no chance of overpowering the boar.

I am not even going to get into everything the rest of us presume about the conflicts of the races. This accident was sealed within one or two seconds of the boar pulling on that yolk.

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Also depending on the scenario all the boar needed to do was let go. If you fuckup, you let go and the plane will fix itself, or the instructor can if they let you really fuckup.