For a student pilot, flying a plane without assistance for the first time can be tense.

The feeling was more than that, though, for 22-year-old Rosario when her flight instructor suddenly left her in control of the small Cessna 150 aircraft while they were airborne in Toledo, Argentina, on 4 July.

“You know what you have to do, carry on,” flight instructor Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, 42, told Rosario before taking off his headset, unclipping his seatbelt, opening the door and jumping out of the plane, CNN reported.

The student pilot, shocked by what had just happened, managed to fly back to Coronel Olmedo Airport and safely landed the Cessna.

Rosario then alerted authorities to the emergency, and Bertazzo’s body was found around 20 minutes later in a field near the spot she had pointed out.

Meanwhile, another flight instructor in his 20s tested a repaired plane for two hours over Liverpool and nearby British towns on 11 July.

Ravenair owns the Piper Tomahawk, whose cylinder had been replaced and required a test run to ensure the aircraft was safe for future use, CNN reported.

The pilot then expressed his feelings at 335 meters above the ground, based on his flight path traced by the flight-tracking website Flightradar24.

The flight path over the Dee Estuary spelled “I’m bored,” as shown in the website’s screenshot.

The unnamed pilot safely returned to Liverpool John Lennon Airport after the boring test flight.