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New York, March 7

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An Indian-origin woman has died in a small plane crash in the New York area while her daughter and the pilot were injured when they were on a “demonstration flight” to explore flying lessons, according to media reports.

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Roma Gupta, 63, was killed on Sunday on Long Island when the plane, a four-seater single-engine Piper Cherokee, went down in flames as it was returning to the Republic Airport on Long Island from where it had also taken off.

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Her daughter Reeva Gupta, 33, and the pilot are in hospital with severe burns, according to NBC New York TV channel.

“It was a demonstration flight, an introductory flight to see if people are interested” in flying lessons, Oleh Dekajlo, the lawyer for Danny Waizman Flight School, told the channel.

The crash in a residential area of Lindenhurst that missed houses and crashed in a field was captured on home surveillance cameras.

A witness told CBS New York TV, “The pilot did a great job, in my opinion, trying to avoid any houses, people and traffic.” Reeva Gupta is a neurosurgery physician’s assistant with the Mount Sinai Hospital System, according to an appeal set up by co-workers on Gofundme.

“To help fulfil a long-standing wish of theirs, they booked a flight lesson”, according to the appeal which had collected nearly $70,000 by Tuesday evening to help Reeva Gupta and her family”.

It said that she is “fighting for her life” with third-degree burns all over her body.

WABC TV reported that the 23-year-old pilot is a certified flight instructor who issued a “May Day” call – the aviation distress signal – that there was smoke in the plane before it went down.

IANS

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