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kmiles
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Just saw a quick message across the bottom of Fox news about a plane down at an air show in Norfolk, VA. Would it be the Oceana show that is this weekend? Will watch for more details.

There is another topic that started on it 2 minutes before this one.


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Is this the worst summer ever for airshows?
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News reports that it was one of the Geico Skytypers. I believe they fly SNJs. Explosion reported but no word on pilot. Everyone pray for the best.
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See my earlier post with links to local news sites... a friend of mine watched it happen, he said no fire or explosion from his vantage point.
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Very sad.

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A friend there said the SNJ from Skytypers pulled tight to final and snap rolled. It went in vertical and there was a fireball.
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Guess my friend was too far away to see the fireball... sounds awful. :(
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The footage on WVEC's live feed doesn't look too encouraging.

:( :cry:

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Oh, no! :(

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51fixer wrote:
A friend there said the SNJ from Skytypers pulled tight to final and snap rolled. It went in vertical and there was a fireball.
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That is contrary to all other reports I have heard through the media and others that are there. From the Aero-news website:
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Video footage of the accident shows the flight of five had just performed a low flyover at show center, and was breaking formation to come around to land. The accident aircraft was the last plane to pull out of the maneuver; instead of pulling up and out, however, the aircraft continued straight ahead, losing altitude until it impacted terrain.
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NTSB preliminary

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Scott, can you please date/change the title of this thread???? I thought there was another plane crash today. On AAFo I requested Wayne do that last week because it is too confusing and upsetting. He did. There's so much going on, I can't remember this crash was two weeks ago. It feels like a year already.

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I'm with John, just came home and seen this, I was saying to myself not again!! Title needs to be updated.
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Some needs a good spanking for the title, I hope he gets it!!!

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