Buddies of the younger flight teacher who died in a airplane crash in Virginia Thursday stated her lifelong dream was to develop into a industrial pilot and known as her a legend for working towards it.
Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, 23, died within the crash when an 18-year-old scholar pilot she was instructing pulled the small airplane up at too steep an angle at takeoff — which induced the plane to stall and plummet from about 100 toes.
“I keep in mind after I first met her, that’s all she ever wished to do. She wished to be a industrial pilot,” Charlie Hudson, who performed tennis with Ljungman at Hampton College, advised the Day by day Press.
Ljungman, who was from Sweden, attended Hampton College in Virginia and earned her pilot license in March 2021, adopted by her flight teacher license this April.
Her former school roommate at Hampton, Myana Mabry, stated she was happy with her for following her desires and would usually brag about her accomplishments to different college students.
“To know ‘Hey, my roommate is a legend — not a legend within the making, however a legend,'” Mabry advised WAVY. “It was simply so commendable and so rewarding to see her desires develop into a actuality.”
Ljungman documented her “journey to develop into an airline pilot” on her Instagram account “viktoriathepilot,” the place she shared images and movies from the cockpit.
“She was simply … such a pure soul that she appeared so harmless,” Hudson advised the Day by day Press. “How she presents herself on social media … was how she was in individual. I believe that’s fairly uncommon today, to seek out somebody who’s like for like, each in individual and on-line.”
Mabry stated her former roommate was beloved by everybody she met on the college.
“She simply was her being so genuine, folks have been naturally drawn to her,” she advised WAVY.
Hudson additionally remembered her for her constructive character that drew others in.
“I don’t keep in mind her ever not smiling,” he stated. “She was simply contagious in her power, simply beautiful to be round.”
The one-engine Cessna 172, carrying Ljungman, the scholar pilot Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode and one other unidentified 18-year-old scholar, crashed round 3 p.m. in a ditch at Newport Information-Williamsburg Airport.
The 2 18-year-olds, present college students at Hampton College, have been taken to Riverside Regional Medical Heart with severe accidents. Oyebode was later transferred to VCU Medical Heart in Richmond.
Ljungman’s graduating class at Hampton is working to arrange donations to her household, Mabry stated.
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