Plane down at Norfolk Air Show
Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:50 am
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.
There is another topic that started on it 2 minutes before this one.
Last edited by kmiles on Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:11 pm
Is this the worst summer ever for airshows?
Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:17 pm
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.
Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:19 pm
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.
Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:21 pm
A friend there said the SNJ from Skytypers pulled tight to final and snap rolled. It went in vertical and there was a fireball.
Rich
Rich
Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:27 pm
Guess my friend was too far away to see the fireball... sounds awful. 
Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:00 pm
The footage on WVEC's live feed doesn't look too encouraging.
Ryan
Ryan
Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:32 pm
Oh, no!
Please, please let everyone be ok.
Please, please let everyone be ok.
Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:02 pm
Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:48 pm
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.
Rich
That is contrary to all other reports I have heard through the media and others that are there. From the Aero-news website:
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.
North American SNJ-2, N52033
Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:41 pm
Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:35 pm
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.
John
John
Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:19 pm
I'm with John, just came home and seen this, I was saying to myself not again!! Title needs to be updated.
Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:24 pm
Some needs a good spanking for the title, I hope he gets it!!!