A candidate for U.S. Air Force flight training and an instructor were injured today when their training plane came up short of the runway at Pueblo’s Memorial Airport.
The two-seat, single-engine plane bounced onto its top in a ravine at about 11:40 a.m., and both men were rushed to local hospitals.
“They’re banged up, but it looks like they’re going to be OK,” said Ken Smith, president of Doss Aviation, which owns the training plane under a contract with the Air Force.
The men have not been identified.
Doss Aviation has a 48-acre campus next door to the Pueblo airport to screen and offer initial training to about 1,800 Air Force flight-school candidates a year.
The crashed plane was one of 44 Diamond DA-20 aircraft the company uses for the government contract.
