{"id":19179,"date":"2018-12-23T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/?p=19179"},"modified":"2018-12-23T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T10:59:11","slug":"chinese-pilot-and-businessman-killed-in-u-s-air-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.danfetv.com\/?p=19179","title":{"rendered":"Chinese pilot and businessman killed in U.S. air crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-type\">\n<div class=\"article-tool\">\n<div class=\"article-share\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p>Chen Wei, the first Chinese pilot fly around the world in a single-engine plane, was killed in an air crash in the United States on Thursday, according to a Fox News report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img1.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com\/images\/zhycms_chinaplus\/20181222\/be3071e9-ca63-4de8-967d-d9f834250ce5.jpg?x-oss-process=image\/resize,w_650\" alt=\"Chen Wei, the first Chinese person to pilot a single-engine plane on a round-the-world journey, pictured on July 12, 2011. [File photo: VCG]\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chen was one of the four people killed when a private jet heading from Atlanta to Memphis crashed in a northwest Atlanta park.<\/p>\n<p>According to fireman Cortez Stafford who was at the scene of the crash, the plane was almost entirely destroyed in the accident, except the tail of the plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img0.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com\/images\/zhycms_chinaplus\/20181222\/af2c4c59-290e-4267-a4dc-e8581d3c2e7a.jpg?x-oss-process=image\/resize,w_650\" alt=\"An investigator inspects the scene of the crash in northwest Atlanta that took the lives of Chen Wei and three other passengers on Thursday, December 20, 2018.[Photo: AP]\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One witness told a reporter that it looked like the pilot was trying to avoid crashing into a heavily populated area.<\/p>\n<p>Chen Wei was born in 1971. The 47-year-old pilot studied at the University of Memphis before becoming a well-known local business leader. His feat of flying around the world in single-engine plane took place in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Wei, the first Chinese pilot fly around the world in a single-engine plane, was killed in an air crash in the United States on Thursday, according to a Fox&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chinese pilot and businessman killed in U.S. air crash - Danfe TV- English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Danfe TV is Nepal&#039;s best online news source, providing 24\/7 coverage of national and international news. 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