Suicide en plein vol : Son instructeur se jette dans le vide, une élève pilote réussit un atterrissage héroïque
A tragic incident occurred in Argentina on Saturday, July 4, 2026. A flight instructor died after falling from a small plane mid-flight while conducting a training exercise with a student in the province of Córdoba. The 22-year-old woman, who remained at the controls after the fall, managed to land the aircraft safely. A judicial inquiry has been opened to determine the exact circumstances of the tragedy.
The accident occurred aboard a two-seater Cessna 150G that had taken off from Coronel Olmedo airfield in Córdoba. The instructor, identified as Leandro Andrés Bertazzo (42 years old), was accompanying a student who already held a pilot's license but needed to accumulate flight hours.
According to the young woman's account, reported by the management of the Flying Parrot Cordoba flight school, the instructor asked her to maintain the heading before uttering an enigmatic phrase: "You know what you have to do."
He then reportedly removed his helmet, stowed his phone, unfastened his seatbelt, and opened the aircraft door before falling out. The plane was then at an altitude of approximately 250 meters above a rural area near Toledo. The student pilot immediately alerted ground control before successfully landing. The pilot's body was found shortly afterward in a nearby field.
The hypothesis of a deliberate act is favored.
The Córdoba justice system is continuing its investigations and is currently favoring the suicide theory, although technical analyses of the device are still underway to rule out a door malfunction.
Leandro Bertazzo was described as an experienced professional, holding a commercial airline pilot's license issued by the US FAA, and had recently applied to join an airline. While his colleagues claim he was "happy" on the day of the tragedy, his father told investigators that his son was actually going through "a rough patch" and had recently sought treatment at a psychiatric institution.
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