Thursday, March 6, 2008

Titusville crash video finally surfaces

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Video footage of the fatal runway collision last Saturday at the Arthur Dunn Airpark in Titusville, Florida has finally surfaced on CNN. The video quality is very poor, but you can clearly see one of the planes, a Velocity, flipping over and bursting into fire. Towards the end of the video, it pans over towards the other aircraft, a Vans RV-8, which also caught on fire. Apparently the Velocity veered off the runway on landing in an attempt to avoid colliding with another aircraft and instead sliced right through the RV-8. Three people in the RV-8 were killed wile the Velocity pilot somehow survived. Both aircraft and most of the crowd were at the Airpark for the monthly EAA pancake fly-in. The incident comes nearly at the anniversary of another tragic accident in Titusville when a stunt pilot flying an L-39 crashed in a loop at the Space Coast Regional Airport during an airshow.

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