[DeTomaso] Reno Air Race
MikeLDrew at aol.com
MikeLDrew at aol.com
Fri Sep 16 21:45:42 EDT 2011
In a message dated 9/16/11 18 29 32, julian_kift at hotmail.com writes:
> There is video on YouTube for the morbidly inquisitive....
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNePeKn3Tg
>
A much more detailed video is here, which clearly shows the flight path
from the start of the incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTzX35wOGas
Crash takes places at 50 seconds in.
The pilot of the airplane in question was 80 (!) years old. My initial
thought was that he simply had a heart attack or something, collapsed, and
pulled back and to the right on the stick as he collapsed. The witness report
of a trim tab popping off would seem to discredit that theory however.
Man, this sucks. :<(
Mike
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