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NEW YORK, Oct 13 (APP/AFP) – The FBI is investigating an “intentional” crash of a small plane in Connecticut that killed a Jordanian student and injured an American flight instructor, officials and US media said Wednesday. The plane exploded in a fireball on Tuesday in East Hartford, about 120 miles (192 kilometers) northeast of New York. The flight instructor, who survived the crash, told investigators it was not an accident, The New York Times reported. The dead person was identified as trainee pilot, Feras Freitekh, 28, who the Times said was Jordanian. He was issued a private pilot certificate last year and certified to fly a single-engine plane, the newspaper said. The doomed Piper PA-34 was on its final approach to East Hartford airport when it crashed, knocking out power lines, US media reported. “The crash is the result of an intentional act,” the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.