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Father-to-be Navy officer vanishes with pilot instructor after plane drops off radar
Two 30-year-old pilots, including a Navy officer and expectant father, are presumed dead after a training flight crashed into Lake Pontchartrain; recovery and investigations are ongoing.
- A single-engine Cessna Skyhawk departed the Million Air terminal in Gulfport with an instructor pilot and a student, lost communication about 4 miles north of Lakefront Airport, and plunged into Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, with both presumed dead.
- Lt. David Michael Jahn, 30-year-old U.S. Navy civil engineer corps officer, was commissioned in May 2019 and served at Camp Butler and Camp Pendleton before joining Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 in Gulfport.
- FAA and NTSB investigators are probing the crash, while Michael Carastro said Jahn trained on instruments amid marginal weather and no distress call.
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Female pilot, Navy officer flight student presumed dead after plane plummets into New Orleans lake
Flight instructor Taylor Dickey and her student — father-to-be and US Navy Lt. David Michael Jahn — are presumed dead after their plane plummeted into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain Monday.
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The 30-year-old private pilot presumed dead aboard a Cessna Skyhawk that plunged into Lake Pontchartrain was an expectant father and Navy officer stationed in Gulfport.
·Baton Rouge, United States
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