‘We can’t live with ourselves’: Miami flight school shuts down after fatal midair crash
Staff broke the news to students following a brief memorial at the Kendall flight school for the four people killed:
"We can't live with ourselves; the crash devastated us,"
As Dean spoke to the
"We already hired a separate company that will come and assess our assets so we can liquidate them and pay students back," Dean said. "The crash had nothing to do with maintenance, but rather human error. It was a freak accident, that's what it was. Like one in a hundred billion."
In the afternoon of
Police said Knight was a subcontracted inspector who worked for the
Dean told the
"They went back up in the air later on and everything was working fine -- and then nine minutes into the flight, they collided," Dean said.
Records show the school's planes were involved in five accidents from 2007-2017, resulting in two fatalities.
The federal
Days after the crash, the flight school's website was hijacked by hackers.
"You have killed too many students," the site said in large capital letters.
"Everything is up in the air for us. No pun intended," one student said. "If we don't get our money back -- the average tuition is
Other students told the Herald that specific plans on how
"We've been given no specifics. All they say is 'give us time,' " one student said. "We're just scared the company will declare bankruptcy and flee."
Dean quickly tried to ease students' concerns: "When I'm underground and dead, that's the only time you'll have a problem getting in touch with me," he told a student pilot in uniform, then gave him a hug.
"We're just confused, stunned, sad," said Ibrahem Khenkar, 20.
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