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Seaplane Down In Louisiana, One Person Fatally Injured

Second Person On Board Hurt During Water Landing Practice

A seaplane practicing touch-and-goes on a Louisiana marsh has crashed, killing the airplane's student pilot. The as-yet-unidentified student was a 31-year-old man from Cummings, GA.

Fox News reports that floatplane flipped over near Pointe a la Hache after appearing to encounter wind shear. The instructor, 51-year-old Lyle Panepinto from Gretna, LA, was not seriously injured in the accident.

The first responders on the scene was a boat attached to the gulf oil spill unified response command, but the aircraft was not engaged in spill response.

FMI: www.ntsb.gov

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