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“All of a sudden I heard screaming and looked up and there was a fire ball,” said Stan Thayer of Wilmington.
Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville said he was watching the plane through binoculars. “I noticed it was upside down really close to the ground. She was sitting on the bottom of the plane,” he said. “I saw it just go right into the ground and explode.”
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Fatalities have been confirmed.
Looks like a wind gust or ineffective aileron deflection failed to compensate for her weight and get the wings level for the inverted pass. Not enough altitude to correct so all lift was lost and it nosed in left wing first. Very sad and tragic.
It almost seems like it’s not a matter of “if” these air show participants will die in a crash, just a matter of when.
About 1980 I was building a fence for a camp right behind an elderly woman’s house who invited me inside for a cold drink and AC as it was a blistering hot summer day.
There were photos on the wall of her as a young woman in the late 1920’s wing walking on biplanes, walking around the edge of the empire state building and on the top of bridges over the Hudson.
She delighted in describing each photo and the people in them. Must have stayed 2 hours listening to her.
Oh, how tragic. I am not going to speculate on the causes, just mourn the loss of two fine aviators and entertainers. Prayers to Dayton. :-(
Looks like the engine threw a rod, engine lost power.. Pilot tried to ‘right the ship’ but didn’t have the altitude to do so. Would’ve crashed regardless due to engine seizure.
There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots! : (
Oh. OOPS!
A woman wing walker and her pilot were confirmed dead after their plane crashed in a ball of flames at an airshow Saturday afternoon.
Terrence Slaybaugh, the director of aviation for Dayton, confirmed their deaths around 2 p.m. The crash occurred at around 12:45 p.m.
Jane Wicker, a mother of two, was atop the biplane at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton, Ohio when it plunged to the ground in front of horrified onlookers. The pilot, Charlie Schwenker, also perished in the crash.
My thoughts and prayers are with Jane Wicker, Charlie Schwenker and their families (especially Rock, Jane's fiance). I've known Jane for many years and she was always working striving for perfection. Such a horrible tragedy...
It looks like the video is vivid high-resolution and in full living color. I really didn't find out because the start photo was enough to make my tummy and legs queasy enough that I couldn't bring myself to hit the arrow to start the video rolling.
No, I don't have acrophobia....just Wallendaphobia. I don't want to think of him looking like a Gumby as he lays flattened at 6000 feet below the rim of the canyon.
Leni