Two planes collide while landing during the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture show.
One pilot died and the other suffered minor injuries after the planes clipped wings.
Two planes collide while landing during the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture show.
One pilot died and the other suffered minor injuries after the planes clipped wings.
It looks like the tail of one, not the wing. I would guess from the stills it was prop to tail.
I would have a great deal of difficulty figuring how the green wing aircraft got into the position it was in. Both had gear and flaps down, apparently a formation landing, but apparent doesn’t exactly tell the story. Hopefully we will read the accident investigation results and learn. I left the show Thursday afternoon about 3pm. Spent a good deal of time in the Warbirds area. P-51 definitely one of my favorites, as well as the men that fly them. No one wants to see good men and good airplanes go down.
Looks more like the green bellied one clipped the tail off of the blue tailed one with its wing. I guess it's too much to expect journalists to look at the picture when writing a caption.