{"id":475693,"date":"2026-09-25T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475693\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:46:11","slug":"report-light-plane-flew-erratically-prior-to-double-fatal-san-diego-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475693\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Light Plane Flew &#8216;Erratically&#8217; Prior to Double-Fatal San Diego Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight instructor Frederic Hewett, 37, and a student of his, Roger Shimizu, 45, were fatally injured when the Cessna 172 went down on a runway at the Serra Mesa general-aviation airport shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 7. The two were taking part in an instructional flight at the time and had been airborne for a little over an hour, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. They died at the scene of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Security-camera video footage captured images of the single-engine four-seat plane being flown through repeated &#8220;go-arounds,&#8221; a maneuver in which pilots begin and then abort a landing attempt on final approach or following touchdown, then circle around the airport to try again, the NTSB report states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight instructor Frederic Hewett, 37, and a student of his, Roger Shimizu, 45, were fatally injured when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-475693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}