Overview
- The instructor, Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, fell from a two-seat Cessna C-150 during a training flight and was found dead in a rural field after his 22-year-old student landed the plane, according to multiple school and police accounts.
- The student, who has a private pilot licence but limited hours, sent an alert after landing and is the key witness whose testimony has been given to the Justicia Federal de Córdoba.
- Federal prosecutors have seized the aircraft and are carrying out technical peritajes on the airframe, communications and flight records with support from the Junta de Seguridad del Transporte.
- Investigators say a voluntary jump is the leading hypothesis but have not ruled out mechanical faults, door or restraint failures, or procedural errors as they await forensic results.
- The school has suspended activities while the aviation community weighs how fitness‑to‑fly checks, disclosure of prior psychiatric care known only to family, and training protocols might be reviewed if human‑behavior factors are confirmed.