Stunt plane with a single pilot crashed, NORFOLK (Virginia)

[alph2z]

NORFOLK, Va. - A civilian World War II stunt plane with a single pilot crashed Friday at Oceana Naval Air Station while practicing hours before the start of one of the country's largest air shows.

Larry Arken, deputy squadron commander of the New York City-based GEICO Skytypers Air Show Team, said he did not know the pilot's condition but added, "I could say it didn't look good, from what I saw" at the crash scene.

He declined to identify the pilot pending official word on his colleague's condition. Television reports showed the plane's wreckage in a field at the end of a runway........


RIP
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[PaperTiger]

Jan Wildbergh, SNJ (navy T6). :sad:

http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_090707_oceana_crash_.aed0a1d2.html

[alph2z]

For more news,

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1120443432
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[barit1]

Also see http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=291202

[barit1]

NTSB Preliminary (http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20070921X01427&key=1)

[Pugilistic Animus]

I just recently met some members of the team before a show at Shirley, they were in good spirits and performed excellent formation demos---I frequently see their T-6 Texans in the pattern or on the echo ramp at FRG---my heart goes out to the lost Aviator