Posted on 08/22/2011 12:44:03 AM PDT by rawhide
A stunt wing walker fell to his death while attempting to cross from a bi-plane to a helicopter during the Selfridge Air Show this afternoon in Harrison Township.
Wing walker Todd Green who was flying on John Mohr's Steerman aircraft, fell off the plane as he attempted to transfer from his aircraft to a helicopter, at approximately 1:30 p.m. He fell about 200 feet to the ground.
A number of medical personnel from Selfridge Air National Guard Base and Medstar Ambulance rushed to Green as thousands of stunned spectators sat in silence, some praying. After treating Green on the ground for about 15 minutes, rescue personnel transported him to Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center.
Green was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Moments before Green fell, the show announcer on the public address system mentioned winds were becoming a factor in the performance, reminding the audience about the inherent risk of danger in the stunt maneuvers.
Show-goers who saw the accident initially thought it was a stunt as part of the event, but learned from the show announcer that in fact something had gone horribly wrong.
“There were lots of tears,” said Jennifer Bradley of Linden, Mich., who was at the show with her sons, ages 7 and 11. “We sat and prayed together.”
Green leaves behind his wife, Dawn, his son Tyler and his stepson Derrick.
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“You shall not tempt the LORD your God...”
... But you go ahead! I hear there’s an opening in the cast for those Jackass movies.
When I was a young kid and my dad was on the Detroit police force, he used to take me to the Detroit Police Field Day at the old Tiger stadium or whichever one was being used back around 1958.
the last one he took me to there was a person spinning on some rope about a hundred feet in the air and the rope broke and he fell to the ground killing him/herself, don't really remember what sex.
I used to live in Mt. Clemens too, until Jenny blew me away. Out of curiosity, What was the name of your shop?
Anytime that I could save time and the method I used had a 50% chance of survival I did it!
Time is the most important commodity there is, it’s the only one that once spent is not replaceable.
Yes, I’ve flown airplanes and crashed one, drove race cars and crashed them and If I had been killed tough shit!
I’m 74 and If I got killed tomorrow tough shit!
Well, it’s no skin off my nose. My life is important to me. Yours isn’t.
Sorry about Jenny! We bought a stamping company named Basco, right on the edge of the airfield: renamed it North American Stamping in late ninety’s.
We validated ourselves as a tier one supplier to GM, I negotiated a 30% price increase, were doing fine, got the Q stamp, until the bank decided to close us down as the investor was taking too much vig out of the company.
Used to commute to Detriot every other week for a year or so from Rhode Island. We were in a position of getting the GM vendor of the year award, until the bank stepped in, wiping us out!
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