Feras M. Freitekh was a Jordanian citizen who was given permission to come to the U.S. in 2012 for the purpose of attending flight school. In 2016 in Connecticut, he crashed the small twin-engine Piper PA 34 Seneca airplane he was flying into a a utility pole near an occupied vehicle on the ground. Power was knocked for for 500 people for most of thye day. Freitekh was the only person killed in the incident. His flight instructor, who survived the crash, said that Freitekh got into an argument and they wrestled for control of the airplane after he refused to continue flying, and had deliberately crashed the plane.
Local investigators asked the FBI to investigate because the crash was just across the street from the "critical infrastructure" of the the Pratt & Whitney headquarters which is a defense contractor for aircraft engines. Investigators have concluded the crash was an intentional act motivated by suicide rather than terrorism, though nothing was being ruled out. It may possibly have been in despair because of this poor peformance in flight school, though he was already certified for single-engine flying. The FBI was investigating, but he was not known to intelligence agencies, no religious statements were heard, nothing else to pointed to terrorism.
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