Aviation ping
Clearly they were not prepared and it took them a long time to be on the way. The promoter of this event was not prepared.
His family and friends will be grieving, but not him. He died doing what he loved. His last thought probably was,
Boy...this is going to be a close one.
The crash happened at 1:30 into the video. A car pulls up about a minute later, obviously with NO fire extinquisher. The sirens from the emergency trucks do not sound for at least 1 minute and 30 seconds later and at 3:30 when the video ends they still were not at the crash location.
Totally inept emergency services at this air show.
It was 2 minutes and 15 seconds before any water was put on the burning plane.
Just sucks. No time for blame, sad loss.
Looks like the problem started in an uncontrolled tumbling maneuver, which used to be known as a “lomchevak”, with the airplane pitching and snap-rolling simultaneously. It exited in a spin and never recovered. Not exactly “pancaking into the runway”.
My T-38 flight instructor died practicing for an airshow in his Pitts Special.
Aviation is dangerous, and serious, business.
RIP Bryan.
The pilot died instantly upon impact.
I saw a show on the History Channel a few days ago. It was about dangerous airports. In one video, a plane goes off the runway and before more the two or three seconds had elapsed, a crash truck was visible with it’s lights on heading for the plane.
This was in some third world South or Central American country. I thought that was unusually good response.
Yet another accident at an airshow today...
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/homepage_showcase/accident-at-selfridge-air-show
Poor devil. RIP.
Were you at this show?