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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The sister of a student pilot who died in a small plane crash in Connecticut in 2017 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the instructor of failing to prevent the accident and the flight school of failing to maintain the plane.
It's the second such lawsuit against the now-defunct American Flight Academy in connection with two fatal plane crashes in a five-month span.
Marie Matta-Isona filed the latest lawsuit Monday in New Haven Superior Court.
Her brother, Pablo Campos-Isona, died when a Piper PA38 crashed in East Haven. The instructor survived. Federal authorities concluded a fuel selector valve failed and the instructor made mistakes.
The flight academy's lawyer declined to comment Friday.
The academy also is being sued over a 2016 plane crash in East Hartford that killed a student.
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