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His plane crashed into the ground, as he tried to initiate a recovery from a flat spin, at a "height lower than required". April 10 – 2010 Air Races Crash. A MXS-R race plane crashed into the Swan River outside of Perth, Australia prior to participating in the Red Bull Air Races. The pilot was hospitalized in stable condition, the plane was ...
A plane swap stunt, in which two pilots attempted to switch planes while midair, resulted in a crash landing in the Arizona desert over the weekend and prompted a federal investigation.
The pilot in charge during a forbidden Red Bull plane-swapping stunt said Friday he takes full responsibility for the ensuing crash over the Arizona desert. Luke Aikins, the lead pilot, admitted ...
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Stunt pilot, Red Bull Air Race competitor Edge 540 [75] Casarrubios del Monte, Province of Toledo: Crashed into the ground during stunt routine [76] Mitsuyasu Maeno: Japan 1976 Erotic film actor Piper Cherokee: Setagaya, Tokyo Controlled flight into terrain into a house during a kamikaze attack John Gillespie Magee Jr. United States 1941 ...
Luke Aikins (born November 21, 1973) [1] is an American professional skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer.He is the first person to intentionally dive from mid-tropospheric altitude and land safely without a parachute or a wingsuit and the second skydiver to intentionally jump and safely land without using a parachute.
4 February 1912 Franz Reichelt: 33 France The inventor of a pre-modern wingsuit, jumped from the Eiffel Tower to his death in a failed test flight. [1] 16 September 1963: Gerard Masselin 27 France The French stunt parachutist jumped from a biplane showing his wingsuit to the camera and was killed after his parachute failed to open. [2] [3] 13 ...
30 May – Wisconsin State Fairgrounds (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) – Sixteen people were injured when a stunt plane crashed while performing a transfer of a person on an airplane to moving automobile via a ladder stunt. The ladder became hooked on the automobiles exhaust pipe and lifted the vehicle's rear end and threw it out of control.