Bryan Jensen & "The Beast" killed at Kansas Airshow

[tlewis95]

What's even worse is that wing walker was Kyle Franklin's old wingwalker, before his wife started walking for him.

Kyle lost both his wife and his old wingwalker this year to airshow accidents. He's lost his father, father-in-law, grandfather and wife to airplane crashes.

Yeah I noticed that. I feel horrible for him. Amazingly though, he is still doing shows through all of this.

 

[TwoTwoLeft]

Ya he looks like he did a cross over spin. Really a shame. At that level there is no room to recover from an error like that. You can hear the power changes too.

Who said it was an error? The rudder could have jammed, it's happened before. I've lost two friends from actual control failures & almost had to bail out once myself.

Remember, there's a delay in the sound. At that distance it's about a second behind.

This kind of stuff always happens in 3's...

 

[Inverted25]

Who said it was an error? The rudder could have jammed, it's happened before. I've lost two friends from actual control failures & almost had to bail out once myself.

Remember, there's a delay in the sound. At that distance it's about a second behind.

This kind of stuff always happens in 3's...

This is a good point. My analysis wasn't trying to say it was his fault. I was just saying it looked like a cross over stall. The cause could have been pilot error or control jammed or many other possibilities.