Instructor charged in death of student pilot in Lehigh Valley plane crash

A flight instructor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for a 2022 plane crash in Lehigh County that killed an Easton student pilot, and prosecutors say he had previously surrendered his pilot’s certificate after two prior crashes. Philip Everton McPherson II, 36, of Haddon Township, New Jersey, was in command of the single-engine Piper PA-28 when it left Queen City Airport in Allentown with the student on Sept. 28, 2022, according to the indictment. The plane crashed and caught fire a short time later in a yard on Keystone Road...