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Old 14th July 2012 | 19:45
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Mental Arithmatic versus Instruments

A 21-year-old trainee pilot died in a plane crash when another pilot refused to accept the empty fuel gauge reading, saying his own calculations were more accurate.

Jaskinder Kaur Samra, from Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton, was a passenger in the rented 1969 Cessna aircraft piloted by American friend Abraham George, 24, who also died in the tragedy.

A second passenger, Shaun Thacker, from Monmouthshire in Wales, miraculously survived the crash after wrapping himself in a duvet to protect his body.



Jaskinder Samra, 21, was killed when a Cessna Skyhawk fell from the sky just a few minutes short of an airfield in Georgia




Shortly after those fateful words on the 427-mile flight, from New Smyrna Beach, Florida to Chattanooga, Tennessee, the engine lost power and the plane crashed.:I trust my maths more than a 1969 fuel gauge: Pilot's fatal final words before crashing killing him and trainee | Mail Online

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