One Fatally Injured In Flight Training Accident Near Houston, TX | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-06.23.25

Airborne-NextGen-06.24.25

AirborneUnlimited-06.25.25

Airborne-AffordableFlyers-06.26.25

AirborneUnlimited-06.27.25

Wed, Feb 03, 2016

One Fatally Injured In Flight Training Accident Near Houston, TX

Plane Went Down At Arcola, TX Airport, Student Survives

An instructor pilot was fatally injured Monday when the 2007 Tecnam P92 Echo Super he and a student were aboard went down at Houston-Southwest Regional Airport in Arcola, TX south of Houston. The student survived the takeoff accident, managing to free himself from the burning airplane.

Television station KPRC reports that the student pilot was 20-year-old Nezabian Thomas, a member of the Air National Guard who recently took up flying as a hobby.

The station identifies the instructor as Johnny Johnson, 68, who was described by his wife as a "very safe pilot." Thomas told the station in a telephone interview that the plane encountered a strong crosswind just after takeoff Monday. "We didn't have enough thrust to climb any more, so the nose went down and next thing you know ... you hit the ground. It was at a pretty bad angle, too," he said.

Television station KXAS in Dallas reports that the plane went down next to a hangar between two parked aircraft. There was a post-impact fire. Thomas was able to get himself out of the wreckage and was hospitalized, but Johnson was fatally injured.

Johnson worked for Houston Light Sport Aviation based at the airport which owned the aircraft. Investigators said that he was an experienced pilot with thousands of hours in his logbook. Thomas had flown five times with instructors from the flight school, according to authorities investigating the accident.

(Tecnam P92 pictured in file photo. Not accident airplane)

FMI: www.ntsb.gov

Advertisement

More News

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.29.25)

Aero Linx: Transport Canada We are a federal institution, leading the Transport Canada portfolio and working with our partners. Transport Canada is responsible for transportation p>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.29.25): Gross Navigation Error (GNE)

Gross Navigation Error (GNE) A lateral deviation from a cleared track, normally in excess of 25 Nautical Miles (NM). More stringent standards (for example, 10NM in some parts of th>[...]

Classic Aero-TV: Anticipating Futurespace - Blue Origin Visits Airventure 2017

From AirVenture 2017 (YouTube Edition): Flight-Proven Booster On Display At AirVenture… EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is known primarily as a celebration of experimental and amateu>[...]

NTSB Final Report: Cirrus SR22

Aircraft Parachute System (CAPS) Was Deployed About 293 Ft Above Ground Level, Which Was Too Low To Allow For Full Deployment Of The Parachute System Analysis: The day before the a>[...]

Airborne Affordable Flyers 06.26.25: PA18 Upgrades, ‘Delta Force’, Rhinebeck

Also: 48th Annual Air Race Classic, Hot Air Balloon Fire, FAA v Banning 100LL, Complete Remote Pilot The news Piper PA-18 Super Cub owners have been waiting for has finally arrived>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2025 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC