Robert Kraus, dean of Aerospace at UND, said administrators were previously unaware of any mental health issues student pilot John Hauser may have been dealing with, but Hauser’s family confirmed that was the case. Kraus said the official cause of the crash will be made known when the NTSB releases its final report, which could take up to a year.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report, the Piper PA-28-181 airplane operated by John Hauser, 19-year-old sophomore and commercial aviation student, made a “rapid descent” into the ground, not long after the plane took off. Hauser was killed in the Oct. 18 crash.
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The University of North Dakota’s aerospace school canceled all flight activities after a student pilot from Chicago died in an airplane crash, the Associated Press reported. Robert Kraus, dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, ordered a “safety stand down,” halting all flight activity. “Out of respect for the family we stress that you should not speculate
Top administrators for the university met in the lobby of Robin Hall with the building’s namesake Si Robin, and his pilot Scott Patterson, to accept the donations that will be used to create scholarships for aviation students for years to come. While Robin pledged $1 million for the school, Patterson donated $25,000, which will become the seed for an endowment that will grow substantially.