Hyderabad resident dies in Hooks Airport crash in Houston

A city resident died a plane crash in Hooks airport in Houston in
Texas in United States. The victim identified as Chamakura Karthik was a pilot student
and a native of Poola Bazar in Kurnool.
He was killed along with instructor of Cessna aircraft 152 as it burst into flames
crashing into a hangar during a landing attempt at Hooks Airport .
Chamakaura Karthik’s father  B Ch Nagaraju works as General Manager in BSNL in Shillong
in Nagaland and her mother Malleswari is a homemaker. Karthik did his studies in
Chaitanya College in the city and later Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy in Hyderabad and
moved Texas for flight studies.
The mishap occurred when the pilot was on touch and go maneuvers as part of training on
November 18 in US. The flight belongs to United Flight Systems in New Castle of Delaware.
The last conversations from the trainee pilot and instructor revealed Karthik asking the
airport tower ‘We have some problems…”. A "heavy amount of fuel and fire" blocked
firefighters from rescuing two people trapped inside the plane.
The family lives in Residency Apartment in Ashoknagar and on after knowing about the
incident they moved to Kurnool.
Karthik’s uncle Mr Ch Shiva Kumar a contractor says ,”Karthik had completed 40 hours of
flying with Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy and he went to US one half month ago in
September  28 for further flying training. He said would come back by February and attend
his brother Rahul’s marriage in May. Rahul did his MSC and returned from US recently and
Karthik attended Rahul’s engagement.

“Two years ago when there was a crash at Begumpet he was not there as he came to Kurnool
on passport work,”
“We received information from another AP student Dinesh who called up us and informed
about the crash. Initially they told us that he was injured seriously but late confirmed
he died on the spot. One of our relatives Revanth who works in Texas is at hospital and
post mortem is yet to be done. Indian embassy has to interfere to get the body,” said
Karthik’s uncle Shiva.
Karthik’s father Nagaraju was transferred to Nagaland an year ago. He earlier worked in
Karimnagar. “As his father moves regularly on job the family was stay put at Hyderabad
for the studies of children. Karthik made a point I was present in the airport in
September. It’s a great loss to the family,”