{"id":1523012,"date":"2026-07-09T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=e50ca8bf535d4b248a7f57e1e3069183"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:23:18","slug":"student-pilot-forced-to-land-plane-solo-after-instructor-allegedly-jumped-midair-to-his-death-investigators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1523012","title":{"rendered":"Student pilot forced to land plane solo after instructor allegedly jumped midair to his death: Investigators"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/73e2926d659cab40700ebaa832e3233f.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Cessna 150 in flight. (Bettmann Archive\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"p1\">(TOLEDO, Argentina) -- A 22-year-old pilot in Argentina was forced to land the plane she was training in after her instructor allegedly jumped midair to his death, investigators said.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The unidentified student was taking lessons at the Flying Parrot Cordoba school and had taken off from Toledo on Saturday with her instructor, Leandro Bertazzo, a school official told ABC News.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">During the lesson, Bertazzo allegedly jumped out of the plane after telling the student that she knew what to do, the student had told police, according to the school.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The student, who had a license but not enough flight hours, was able to land the Cessna 150 alone, according to investigators.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The student told the police that she could not believe that it happened and thought it was a joke, according to investigators.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The 42-year-old flight instructor's body was recovered later that day, investigators said. The school said he was with them since 2022.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The Federal Prosecutor's Office No. 2 of C\u00f3rdoba said it would continue the investigation.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cessna 150 in flight. (Bettmann Archive\/Getty Images)(TOLEDO, Argentina) &#8212; A 22-year-old pilot in Argentina was forced to land the plane she was training in after her instructor allegedly jumped midair to his death, investigators said.&nbsp;The uniden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3837,"featured_media":1523013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-09\/News_cessna150_7926.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-world-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-11 21:22:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-09\/News_cessna150_7926.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523017,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523012\/revisions\/1523017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}