Smidt was a passenger Sunday evening as his flight instructor, Denise De Priester, of East Windsor, N.
Mr Crofts-Bolster was an experienced pilot with nearly 5, 000 flying hours and was both a flight instructor and examiner.
After serving as a flight instructor during World War II, he turned down an airline pilot's career and returned to the workshop.
"The flight itself was interesting, fairly long, but went extremely well, " Jones, a 51-year-old British balloon flight instructor, said of the 20-day adventure.
He began writing while attending Dartmouth College, but he left in 1943 to enlist in the Navy, becoming a pilot and flight instructor.
Jessica's flight instructor, Joe Reid, was reportedly sitting beside her during the fatal flight and was to take over the controls in an emergency.
"In a worst-case scenario, you could eject from a fighter jet, " says senior CAL flight instructor Chou Yu-sen, who once trained F-104 and T33 combat pilots.
No one can obtain a student pilot's license until age 16, but a child of any age can fly under the supervision of a flight instructor.
Smidt said he is a student pilot and De Priester is his flight instructor, but on Sunday they were just out for a sightseeing flight in her newly purchased 1967 Piper Cherokee.
Some people were critical of Jessica's parents for encouraging their daughter to set the flying record and of the flight instructor's decision to take off in a storm that carried rain and snow.
While her mother insisted that Jessica's age was not a factor in the crash, aviation experts question whether children should be allowed to fly planes, even under the close supervision of a flight instructor.
He was earning money as a freelance instructor taking people for flight lessons in Arizona.
He was promoted to flight lieutenant towards the end of World War II before becoming an instructor at RAF Finningley.
Instructor Steven Lewis, 38, made a mayday call 20 minutes into the training flight from Blackpool Airport.
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