A pilot instructor who jumped to his death during a flight lesson in Argentina had been seeing a psychiatrist but had not told his colleagues, it has emerged.
Leandro Bertazzo, 42, jumped from the pilot’s seat of a Cessna 150 on July 4, leaving the 22-year-old student he was flying with to land the aircraft alone.
When Eduardo Álvarez, director of the flight school where Bertazzo worked, spoke to the instructor’s father on Saturday afternoon, he was told his son had been going through ‘a bad time’.
According to Alvarez, Bertazzo’s family also revealed he had attended an appointment at a psychiatric hospital
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