A Saudi national, aged 27, is feared dead in the crash of a four-seater airplane in Florida, according to Sabq newspaper.
He went missing along with his 70-year-old American instructor who was with him aboard the small jet.
The authorities have since launched a search operation for the Saudi student and his instructor who has been working for years with an aviation company.
They were both on a training flight to St Simons Island, off the Georgia Coast, before returning to the aviation academy.
An eyewitness said that they had seen the plane flying at low altitude before falling near the lakes.