Overview
- On Saturday a 42‑year‑old instructor fell from a Cessna C-150 during a routine training flight over Toledo, Río Segundo, and the 22‑year‑old student aboard controlled the plane, made an emergency landing and alerted authorities.
- The instructor was identified as Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, a commercial pilot and instructor at Flying Parrot Córdoba, and search teams found his body in a nearby field where emergency services confirmed his death.
- The Federal Justice in Córdoba has taken the case, seized the aircraft and ordered pericial technical examinations while investigators review flight documentation, communications and the student's testimony as key evidence.
- Investigators are weighing multiple hypotheses—including a mechanical or door/locking failure, an instructional maneuver gone wrong, or other causes—but officials have not confirmed any single explanation.
- Flight training is routine in Córdoba and the student held a private pilot license with limited hours, so the probe and pericia results could prompt scrutiny of school protocols, aircraft safety systems and instructor fitness to fly.