A woman trainee pilot was killed and her male instructor injured after a light aircraft crashed in a plantation near Gunung Pulai , Johor today, according to a police source.

It said the plane, from a flying academy, went down at 9.20am during a training flight.

"Eye-witnesses said the engine of the plane stalled before it crashed," the source told Bernama .

It said the plane is believed to have taken off from the Senai airport at about 8.30am for the training flight over Johor.

The injured man and the body of the woman had been brought to the Kulaijaya Hospital, the source said.

- Bernama