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Aikmaniac
09-17-2011, 10:12 AM
Anyone seen this yet?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/17/nevada.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Awful. Appears a trim tab came loose on one of the wing's ailerons causing the Mustang to start rolling on its own. It looks to me like the pilot from trying to pull out away from the crowd and the only way to do that was put it straight in.

:(
DIAF
09-17-2011, 10:13 AM
Whatever you do, do NOT search for videos of this. I clicked on one and wished I hadn't.

Edit: *** at tag?
Hostile
09-17-2011, 10:19 AM
Oh my gosh. That is heart breaking.
Signals
09-17-2011, 11:08 AM
Not sure whether the article mentions this or not but this is the first air show accident in the history of air shows where there were spectator casualties. I'll take DIAF's advise and not Google vid's.
CliffnMesquite
09-17-2011, 06:33 PM
The loss of that aircraft is tragic. And the lives as well of course.
CowboyMcCoy
09-18-2011, 11:01 AM
The loss of that aircraft is tragic. And the lives as well of course.

Sometimes how you say things makes you seem like sort of a jerk or troll. I mean, the aircraft is replaceable and doesn't have a soul. Those people had souls and I just think you can seem like an abrasive jerk by the way you say things.
burmafrd
09-18-2011, 11:29 AM
Not sure whether the article mentions this or not but this is the first air show accident in the history of air shows where there were spectator casualties. I'll take DIAF's advise and not Google vid's.

it was a race, not an air show.
CliffnMesquite
09-18-2011, 12:16 PM
Sometimes how you say things makes you seem like sort of a jerk or troll. I mean, the aircraft is replaceable and doesn't have a soul. Those people had souls and I just think you can seem like an abrasive jerk by the way you say things.

That's a matter of opinion.
CowboyMcCoy
09-18-2011, 02:13 PM
That's a matter of opinion.

Sure it is, but I almost think you do it for a rise. Anyway, it takes all kinds I guess.