PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Nearly two years after a small plane crashed into a home in Newberg, the family filed a lawsuit against the flight school that operated the training flight that killed two people and demolished the home.

A number of people began calling 911 around 7 p.m. on October 3, 2023, after they saw the Piper Seminole four-seater “spiraling toward the ground and crashing,” Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue said at that time. When firefighters arrived, they found the plane had crashed through the roof of a home near North Cedar Street and ended up in the home and in the backyard.

The crash happened when student pilot Barrett Bevacqua couldn't control a practice maneuver and the plane became inverted, according to the Ferris family attorney Mark Lindquist. The instructor pilot, M

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