Overview
- The instructor, 42-year-old Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, reportedly opened a door and jumped from a two-seat Cessna C-150 during a training flight, leaving a 22-year-old student alone in the cockpit.
- The student, who held a pilot brevet but had limited hours, contacted ground staff and carried out an emergency landing safely after the instructor’s departure.
- Bertazzo’s body was recovered in a rural area near Toledo in Córdoba province after the July 4 flight, according to multiple local reports.
- Local media say Bertazzo had previously sought psychiatric treatment that was not reported to his employer, a detail now central to the federal Justice of Córdoba investigation.
- The case highlights hazards of two-seat trainers where a single pilot can be vulnerable, and it could prompt scrutiny of medical-disclosure rules, school procedures and oversight for small-flight operations.