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The 20-year old student, whose name has not been released, crashed a Liberty XL2 single-engine aircraft into farmland near Sydney on Wednesday.
Nearby residents said they did not see the crash, but heard its engine revving and then heard an object hitting the trees and crashing to the ground. At the time conditions were said to be fine and sunny with little or no wind.
Last month 24-year old student Akash Ananth died on his first solo flight over Melbourne when his Cessna 150 clipped another aircraft and crashed into a garage about 20 m away from a primary school.
The unnamed pilot of the latest accident had moved to Sydney from Mumbai last January to undertake training at the Sydney Flight Centre in Bankstown.
The pilot's family in Mumbai has been notified.
The aircraft, which was registered in June this year, belonged to Sydney Flight Training Centre. Its website says it is the southern hemisphere's fastest-growing international flight college, with its 40 instructors teaching students from Australia and around the world including India, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong and Europe.
