Posted on 03/18/2010 3:42:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
Two veteran pilots -- one a Bakersfield-based national champion in 2004 at a Reno air show -- were killed Wednesday in a World War II vintage airplane they've flown countless times before, according to friends at the crash scene in a canal and open farm field behind the Frito Lay plant.
Al Goss, 68, the owner of the blue North American AT-6 (Advanced Training) "Texan" that was based in Shafter's Minter Field, and Steven Ballard, 54, a FedEx pilot from Anchorage, Alaska who worked on Goss's "Warlock team" at Minter Field, died at 11:34 a.m. when the AT-6 broke into several pieces, reported friends and the Kern County coroner's staff.
(Excerpt) Read more at bakersfield.com ...
I personally know Mr. Tenhet and take offence to your comments. I also know the airplane, the pilots and the entire crew.
Speak of what you know, and do not speculate about what you don’t.
Okay, thanks for the info
Guess we’ll wait on the NTSB
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