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Top Pilot killed in air show practice crash
Posted on Sunday, 02 May 2024 @ 02:47:53 CDT by ComPilots |
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Anonymous writes "
A champion aerobatic pilot scheduled to perform at this weekend's McDonald's Air & Sea Show was killed in a plane crash during practice Friday.
Ian Groom's Russian-made plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. It was the first fatal accident associated with the giant show, which for the past nine years has attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators to a four-mile stretch of beach between Las Olas and Oakland Park boulevards.
"I knew Ian well enough to know he would want everyone reminded that he was doing what he loved. Aviation was his passion," said Mickey Markoff, Air & Sea Show executive producer.
After taking off from Pompano Beach Air Park in a Sukhoi Su-31, Groom was about 15 minutes into a 45-minute routine, practicing flat spins, where a plane twirls around as it drops. It is considered a precarious maneuver for anyone who isn't a highly experienced pilot. At 14:16, the plane plunged from an altitude of about 2,500 feet and never recovered, said Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the accident.
The single-seat Sukhoi struck the ocean about a half-mile offshore east of Northeast 16th Street, or about six blocks north of Sunrise Boulevard, fire-rescue officials said. The plane quickly sank in about 50 to 100 feet of water, although some pieces of wreckage were recovered, Bergen said.
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