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Regret to inform of a Skybolt crash today at the Nanaimo Airshow.
C-FIPS six minutes into 8 minute airshow routine. In the video looks like some kind of a point roll (8 point?) with the nose dropping out on the last 1/2 roll to upright. Plane has a 150hp motor, and has been a bit of a fixture at local airshows for the past 15 years.
Serious injury to pilot.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110604/air-show-crash-110604/
Pilot identified as (Dr) Bill Phipps, from Campbell River. Some comments about "losing power", but the airshow smoke looks consistent to point of impact.
Edited by: Guido Lepore
C-FIPS six minutes into 8 minute airshow routine. In the video looks like some kind of a point roll (8 point?) with the nose dropping out on the last 1/2 roll to upright. Plane has a 150hp motor, and has been a bit of a fixture at local airshows for the past 15 years.
Serious injury to pilot.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110604/air-show-crash-110604/
Pilot identified as (Dr) Bill Phipps, from Campbell River. Some comments about "losing power", but the airshow smoke looks consistent to point of impact.
