PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Nearly two years after a small plane crashed into a home in Newberg, the family filed a lawsuit against the flight school that operated the training flight that killed two people and demolished the home.
A number of people began calling 911 around 7 p.m. on October 3, 2023, after they saw the Piper Seminole four-seater “spiraling toward the ground and crashing,” Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue said at that time. When firefighters arrived, they found the plane had crashed through the roof of a home near North Cedar Street and ended up in the home and in the backyard.
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The crash happened when student pilot Barrett Bevacqua couldn’t control a practice maneuver and the plane became inverted, according to the Ferris family attorney Mark Lindquist. The instructor pilot, Michele Cavalotti, took over but couldn’t regain control as the plane spiraled and nose-dived into the house.
Bevacqua, 20, and Cavalotti, 22, died at the scene. A third person in the plane, 20-year-old Emily Hurd, was critically injured but survived…