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Quad City Airshow Crash footage (WARNING: graphic)
- Published_at:2012-09-02
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:streetify9
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- description: WARNING: graphic footage. Sep 2, 2012. A pilot flying in formation with two other retired military jets failed to come out of a 45-degree bank during a Quad-City Air Show performance, crashing Saturday afternoon into a field just north of Interstate 80. Credit Robert Eckheart, KWQC The pilot, part of the Hoppers Flight Jet Team, died in the crash about 1:25 p.m. The impact sent a huge fireball into the sky just southwest of the Davenport Municipal Airport, where thousands of spectators were watching the annual air show. No one on the ground was injured. As the air show continued and planes roared overhead, investigators began setting up a grid system to organize the search for pieces of the wreckage. The plane crashed in an alfalfa field, but the wreckage was widely scattered. He estimated that parts of the plane were strewn over an area that measured about 75 by 220 yards. The crash occurred a few hundred yards from buildings in the industrial park, but they were not damaged. The pilot, who was the only person in the plane, was not identified. No information about what may have caused the crash is known. The plane that crashed was a 1984 single-engine fixed-wing Aero Vodochody L-39C. The plane was originally a military training jet, used mainly in Europe, Lunsford said. Over the years, a number of them have been purchased by private owners and used for weekend flying and for air shows, he said. FAA records show that the plane, which had the tail number N139GS, is owned by the Warbird Education Foundation, based in Frisco, Texas. The plane was built in 1984 and has a turbo-jet engine. The foundation's 2010 tax return said that Glenn Smith of Frisco is the organization's president. David Mills of Moline is listed as a director. The return listed a 1984 Aero Vodochody L-39C with a fair market value of $550,000. Mills also is a member of the Hoppers Flight Jet Team and was at the air show Saturday. An L-39C crashed in May near Boulder City, Nev., killing two people, according to a report in the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. And a website for enthusiasts of the plane listed 20 crashes of the aircraft since 1998. The website said more than 2,800 of the aircraft were built and 300-plus were flying in private ownership. The plane was developed in Czechoslovakia and was used by the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. September 2 2012. 9.2.2012
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