![]() Otai had been renting planes from the service since early December, owner Ron Ludema told The Holland Sentinel. ![]() "David apparently rented the airplane from Tulip City Air Service (Sunday) morning and sought emergency assistance from air traffic control at the Muskegon County Airport before crashing in a corn field," college President James Bultman said in a posting on the school’s Web site. Otai rented a Cessna 172 at Holland’s Tulip City Airport and invited Biagioni to accompany him Sunday, Renner said. He had a purpose (for flying) that he had shared with others on campus," Renner said. His goal was to qualify for a commercial pilot’s license so he could fly for the service, Renner said. Otai’s mother helped run Africa Inland Missions, an air service to missions in central Africa. Charles, Ill., were aboard the single engine Cessna 172 that crashed Sunday afternoon, said Hope spokesman Tom Renner. DETROIT - A student from Kenya who hoped to become a missionary pilot in Africa after his studies at Hope College was piloting a rented single-engine plane that crashed in a snowy Michigan corn field, killing him and a student passenger, the school said Monday.ĭavid Otai, 23, of Nairobi, Kenya, and Emma Biagioni, 20, of St.
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