A flight instructor and her student — a father-to-be and US Navy officer — are presumed dead after their plane plummeted into a New Orleans lake, according to authorities and reports.

Taylor Dickey, 30, and her student, later identified as 30-year-old Navy Lt. David Michael Jahn, took off from Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport in a Cessna Skyhawk on Monday, the Coast Guard told W W L 4.

The plane vanished from the flight radar at roughly 6:30 p.m., four miles north of New Orleans Lakefront Airport, the outlet said.

There was no distress call from the aircraft, and it is not immediately clear who was in the pilot’s seat when the plane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain, Michael Carastro, the owner of the flight school that owned the plane, said in a press conference on Tuesday.

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