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Old 08-22-2011, 12:59 PM
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Default Wingman down in Kansas City

Wingman down! A truly sad weekend...

Pilot Bryan Jensen's bi-plane, an aircraft with two parallel sets of wings, crashed at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, officials said.

"The Kansas City Air Show offers heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Bryan Jensen and the show is devastated by this terrible accident," the event's organizers said in a statement.

Video captured by a witness to the crash, and posted on the website of local television station KMBC, showed Jensen's plane spiraling downward and crashing in flames in the area of a runway at the airport.

Jensen, who grew up on a farm in Iowa, was flying a bright red propeller bi-plane called "The Beast" that was the only piston-powered biplane on the air show circuit with a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1, according to the website for the air show.

He had been an aerobatic pilot for 17 years but also worked for a major airline, flying jetliners as large as Boeing 747s, the website said.

Following the crash, the air show activities will resume on Sunday, organizers said.

They said Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.


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Old 08-22-2011, 02:15 PM
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yes my friend,sad week end,toughs to his family.really sad.
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Old 08-22-2011, 04:47 PM
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Very sad to hear this news. RIP
Seemed he nearly pulled out of spin aswell but then went into a secondary one. Again very sad.

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Old 08-22-2011, 09:06 PM
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Damn....our hearts go out to his family.
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Old 08-23-2011, 09:22 AM
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Default Stunt going terribly wrong!

I don't know what it was with last weekend, but here's a stunt that went terribly wrong at an airshow in Michigan



http://www.tntmagazine.com/tnt-today...n-airshow.aspx

RIP Todd Green
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Old 08-23-2011, 05:19 PM
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remember the rule of 3s. its superstition but it is uncanny how many things do actually happen in 3s....or maybe you just do hear about the rest.
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